The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: Sydney bot. Garden 12 April 57 ¶ My dear Sir William ¶ ¶ The supplementary mail for Europe is just closing. Yesterday I forwarded to you a long letter containing I think some bot. information not wit...

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RBG Kew, Directors' letters, vol. LXXIV, Australia letters 1851-8, letter no. 160. 57.04.11

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Ferdinand von Mueller to William Hooker, 1857-04-11. R.W. Home, Thomas A. Darragh, A.M. Lucas, Sara Maroske, D.M. Sinkora, J.H. Voigt and Monika Wells (eds), Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller, <https://vmcp.rbg.vic.gov.au/id/57-04-11>, accessed April 19, 2025

MS address: 'Sir William Jackson Hooker, K.H., D.C.L., F.H.S., V.P.L.S. &c &c &c, Director of the Royal Gardens of Kew near London.'

Sydney bot. Garden 12 April 57

The MS of this letter is postmarked Sydney, 11 April 1857.

My dear Sir William

The supplementary mail for Europe is just closing. Yesterday I forwarded to you a long letter containing I think some bot. information not without value to you.

See M to W. Hooker, 6 April 1857.

I transmitted also diagn of , &

M erected (D. ternifolia), (B. syringifolia) and (L. chlorostachya) (B59.02.02, pp. 158-9), in honour respectively of the Governors of Vic and NSW and the Secretary of State for the Colonies, London.

with specimens. Please let me know by a few lines the reciept of the letter, so that if its contents do not reach you I may make up for it again.

I have Mr Gregorys offic. acknowledgement in hand, stating that I bestowed all possible care on packing the plants.

See A. Gregory to M, 8 April 1857.

The loss has made me quite ill, and I am afraid I do not possess sufficient Newtonian philosophy to get easily over it. How a number of people who had on board of the vessel actually nothing to do, but to watch for the safety of the property of the Government, were unable (by the absence of damage to the vessel) to keep the few important things of the expedition dry, is quite beyond my comprehension.

Ever your most attached

servant

Ferd Mueller.

I have a new genus of ! The order is I believe unkown from Australia. It has regular [flowers].

Presumably Limnostachys (L. cyanea) (B58.03.01, p. 24).