As you may already know, Kew has a copy of the Bulletin:
https://www.worldcat.org/title/bulletin-du-congres-international-de-botanique-et-dhorticulture-reuni-a-st-petersbourg-le-5-15-mai-1884/oclc/6812093
I wonder also if you're aware of Wikisource, a sister project to
Wikipedia, which crowd-sources the transcription and proof-reading of
out-of-copyright works, including correspondence? It already has a
page on von Mueller:
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:Ferdinand_Jacob_Heinrich_von_Mueller
and has begun transcribing his published works.
The National Library of Scotland, for example, has a large Wikisource
project underway:
https://twitter.com/natlibscot/status/1275361553420824576
I'd be happy to advise further about how the Correspondence of
Ferdinand von Mueller Project (or others) could work with the
Wikisource community, but perhaps that would be better off-list?
On Sun, 28 Jun 2020 at 10:27, Arthur Lucas
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>
> On 7 July 1884 Ferdinand von Mueller wrote from Melbourne to a correspondent addressed only as ‘hochgeehrter Herr Professor‘. The letter is now in the Darmstaedter collection of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin. The letter concerns the Horticultural Congress in St Petersburg in 1884, and makes it clear that Mueller knew, or assumed, that the addressee attended, and was involved officially with, that Congress. Mueller also thought that his correspondent might have been responsible for Mueller being awarded a gold medal for a giant Todea fern. Internal evidence suggests that the letter might have been addressed to Heinrich Gustave Reichenbach, of the botanic garden in Hamburg. To help assess that inference we need evidence of Reichenbach’s role at the Congress.
>
> The Bulletin of the congress is on-line at Bulletin du Congrès international de botanique et d'horticulture, réuni à St.-Pétérsbourg, le 5-15 mai 1884. (St.-Pétersbourg, Imprimerie de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences, 1885), but the HathiTrust restricts access, at least to readers from outside the United States. The limited search facility shows that “Reichenbach” occurs on 12 pages, mainly in the preliminary pages.
>
> If anyone has access to a copy of the Bulletin, knows of another on-line source, or has other sources of information, I would appreciate knowing whether it was H. G. Reichenbach, and what roles he had at the Congress, especially whether he was one of the jurors who recommended medals.
>
> Arthur Lucas
> Paignton Devon, UK
>
> Joint editor, Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller
> (See project description at https://www.rbg.vic.gov.au/science/herbarium-and-resources/library)
>
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