The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: Melbourne bot. & zool. Garden ¶ 29. Jan. 62 ¶ Dear Sir William. ¶ ¶ I have much pleasure in enclosing a bill of loading of a case with 9 fascicles of Thalamiflorae sent for Mr Benthams perusal pr. Gr...

Document information

Physical location:

RBG Kew, Directors' letters, vol. LXXV, Australian and Pacific letters 1859-65, letter no. 143. 62.01.29a

Plant names

Billardiera
Search for Billardiera in
Bursaria
Search for Bursaria in
Calyciflorae
Search for Calyciflorae in
- This website
- Australian Plant Name Index
Cheiranthera
Search for Cheiranthera in
Citriobatus
Search for Citriobatus in
- This website
- Australian Plant Name Index
Coralliflorae
Search for Coralliflorae in
- This website
- Australian Plant Name Index
Cupuliferae
Search for Cupuliferae in
- This website
- Australian Plant Name Index
Droseraceae
Search for Droseraceae in
Eucalyptus
Search for Eucalyptus in
Frankeniaceae
Search for Frankeniaceae in
Homalosporum
Search for Homalosporum in
- This website
- Australian Plant Name Index
Hymenosporum
Search for Hymenosporum in
- This website
- Australian Plant Name Index
Ixiosporum
Search for Ixiosporum in
- This website
- Australian Plant Name Index
Marianthus
Search for Marianthus in
Monochlamydeae
Search for Monochlamydeae in
- This website
- Australian Plant Name Index
Pittosporum
Search for Pittosporum in
Rhytidosporum
Search for Rhytidosporum in
Sapindaceae
Search for Sapindaceae in
Sollya
Search for Sollya in
- This website
- Australian Plant Name Index
Thalmiflorae
Search for Thalmiflorae in
- This website
- Australian Plant Name Index
Violarinae
Search for Violarinae in
- This website
- Australian Plant Name Index

Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to William Hooker, 1862-01-29 [62.01.29a]. 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/62-01-29a>, accessed September 11, 2025

MS black-edged; M's sister Bertha Doughty died on 7 September 1861.

Melbourne bot. & zool. Garden

29. Jan. 62

Dear Sir William.

I have much pleasure in enclosing a bill of loading of a case with 9 fascicles of Thalamiflorae sent for Mr Benthams perusal pr. Great Britain to your adress. The case is soldered and contains the following parcels: 1. 1, 1, , & 1, and 1, 1, Homalosporum,

Homalosporum has not been found in the standard plant names indexes but M used it as a section name within in B59.12.02, p. 127, and in B62.03.03 stated ' may either be regarded as a subgenus of , or, chiefly on account of its perfectly flat seeds, as generically distinct' (p. 77).

& 1, 2, Total 9. I had the large parcel of also ready, which would have finished off the Parietineous Group of orders, but the case would not take it. — I have to do some work on the before sending them, but will forward them during february, making every month one consignment, one having gone before this per Young Australian — I mentioned in one of my former letters, that I should be glad to place at your disposal such of the duplicates in these normal collections as without breaking the series of forms can be separated, leaving sufficient for working.

See M to W. Hooker, 25 December 1861 (in this edition as 61-12-25a).

Mr Bright

Charles Edward Bright.

goes in the Great Britain as one of the Commissioners with a large amount of articles from here to the Exhibition. I have still added to the wood collection[s] pr Great Britain The case of Wood Books , finally to be presented by Mr Champ

W. T. N. Champ.

to the Kew Museum also a box with sundry resins, oils &c are gone by the Great Britain. The oils are important; any quantity is obtainable and with proper apparatus they can be distilled in the ranges at less than 6/ a gallon. They dissolve Cautchouc and make capital varnishes in dissolving various resins and are also excellent as lightening material. The jurors here have very extensively investigated these oils.

Sir Redm. Barry has gone by last mail steamer. I have written to him

See M to R. Barry, 27 January 1862 (in this edition as 62-01-27a).

requesting that all the wood[s] resin[s] & other veg. products might be rendered finally available for your grand Museum.

Dr Hooker no doubt will have occasion to see him.

ever your

Ferd Mueller.

I would not advise Mr Bentham to put more than Thalamiflorae into the 1 vol. Big volumes are inconvenient for use. I hope Dr Hooker will distribute all the over Calyci — & Coralli-florae[,]

editorial addition.

retaining only & Gymogens.

Gymnogens [=Gymnosperms]? M's suggestion that this arrangement be made in Genera Plantarum (Bentham & Hooker (1862–83)) was not followed; see Maroske (2006).

Thereby the most artificial partition of the Juss & DC Syst would be made natural. Pray let Mr Bentham kindly return the plants whenever they are revised. The jurors report

Victorian Exhibition, 1861 (1862).

will be sent I think by next mail.