Regardfully Yours: Selected Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller. Volume 1. 1998.. (Life and Letters of Ferdinand von Mueller Series). illus. 842 p. gr8vo. Hardcover.

Of German origin, Ferdinand von Mueller migrated to Australia in 1847,Government Botanist for 43 years until his death in 1896, he wasAustralia's greatest scientist of the 19th century- a major contributorto international science, an intrepid explorer of parts of Australiapreviously unknown to Europeans, and a dominant figure in the scientific and intellectual life of the adopted country. Throughouthis working life, Mueller kept up an enormous correspondence. Largenumbers of letters by or to him have been located, scatteredthroughout the world, and edited for publication. These constitutea major new research tool for both Australian historians and historiansof science. They are also of fundamental importance to Australiantaxonomic botany, for Mueller introduced vast numbers of Australianplants to western science.