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RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, un-numbered letter after f. 48. 62.01.24c

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Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1862-01-24 [62.01.24c]. 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/62-01-24c>, accessed April 5, 2025

24/1/62
Dear Dr Hooker.
I am very much delighted with the prospect of securing , &c for our garden through your great kindness & liberality, also much grateful for your goodness of sending us an addition to the supply of seeds &c which we so bountifully received from you.
I will fully report on them when arrived. I am sadly in arrear with making you sendings. I had to push the first vol of the plants of Victoria
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B62.02.01.
through the press, involving much tedious original research.
The unfortunate Exploration affairs called me also away from my regular duty & so did the Exhibition
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M was a member of the Exploration Committee of the Royal Society of Victoria; he was involved in the organization of the Burke & Wills Exploring Expedition, 1860-1, and gave evidence to the official inquiry into the disastrous outcome of the expedition. He was also a Commissioner for the Victorian Exhibition of 1861.
But after issuing now my annual report
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B62.03.01.
I shall be able to go on regularly as I do not intend to travel this summer for any length of time.
I had the from Mr Moore & directed his attention to it as a new & rare & interesting plant. I did not know where to put it altho ought to have told me.
I gladly avail myself of your offer to secure out of the good Prof Henslows relics the following works for my private library.
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The list of books cannot be found. See also M to J. Hooker, 25 March 1862.
The others I already possess.
ever dear Dr Hooker
faithfully
your
Ferd Mueller
I hope will ere long flourish with you. It strikes with the greatest readiness, so that the plant will now no doubt soon be in all gardens conservatories.