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RBG Kew, Directors' letters, vol. LXXIV, Australia letters 1851-8, letter no. 185. 58.11.15

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Ferdinand von Mueller to William Hooker, 1858-11-15. 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/58-11-15>, accessed April 8, 2025

Melbourne bot. & zool Garden,
15. Nov. 58.
My dear & venerable Sir William
The mail due from England on the 5th of this month has not arrived, and I have therefore little to communicate, having written to Dr. Hooker by last post.
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M to J. Hooker, 15 October 1858.
I hereby beg to send you a copy of my report,
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B58.11.02.
and a specimen of the
Dendrobium Milligani

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, which will be published in my Fragmenta this month.
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B59.02.03, p. 88; the formal publication was delayed.
Dr Milligan has likewise given me a specimen of
Panax sambucifolius

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from V.D.L. near the Douglas River.
The Fragmenta will be out this month.
The distinguished traveller H. R. H. Prince Paul William, Duke of Wurtemburg left to day after several months hard collecting work in Australia, and will wait on you when he arrives in England. Being one of [...],
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two illegible words.
I am sure, you will be pleased with H Highness visit.
Our former Premier Minister Mr Haines, will visit England & takes in a few days his departure pr. "Norfolk" I shall send [specimens] pamphlets seeds &c for yourself, Prof Harvey &c, and a case with living plants, enclosing the noble Cynoglossum Chathamicum from Chatham Island
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Although M discussed Cynoglossum chathamicum and exhibited a living specimen at a meeting of the Philosophical Institute of Victoria on 8 November 1858, he refrained from publishing it 'because meanwhile the venerable Sir Will Hooker had given an account of the same plant'. See Transactions of the Philosophical Institute of Victoria , vol. 3 (1859), p. xxv and B64.10.02, pp. 2, 32. J. Hooker (1858) described the plant as Cynogossum nobile: W. Hooker transfered it to a new genus, Myostidium, in W. Hooker (1827-64) vol. 85, t. 5137 (1859).
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Polygonum platycladum

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from N. Caledonia.
Wishing you, much beloved Sir William, health, happiness & strenght for your great labours,
I remain as ever your sincerely attached
Ferd. Mueller.