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RB MSS M4, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. 62.12.24

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Joseph Hooker to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1862-12-24. 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/62-12-24>, accessed April 19, 2025

Decr. 24/62
Dear Dr Mueller
I write a few lines to thank you again for the 2d & 3d of exchanges, first duly received & acknowledged some weeks ago.
1
The boxes of Herbarium specimens sent to Kew for Bentham’s use while writing Flora Australiensis. See J Hooker to M, 11 April 1862.
Pamplin has also written in your name that the binding bill should be transferred to your acct. if your Establishment pays. I can have no objection to this as it was a private affair between you & Henslows family so far as I was concerned, I was most anxious that you should not think the lot a shabby one !
2
M was purchasing some items from the library of J. S. Henslow, and Hooker arranged with M’s agent, Pamplin, for a run of journals to be bound; see J. Hooker to M, 11 April 1862.
I am now doing
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, having just begun, & find little novelty except your fine thing which I have not looked at yet but which I cannot doubt is a noble & excellent good genus, I am glad you have described it — the Fragmentum with it has not come to hand yet.
3
Macropteranthes leichhardtii (B62.09.01, p. 91), see M to G. Bentham, 24 September 1862. Hooker was the author of the
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in Bentham & Hooker (1862-83), vol 1, pt. 2, pp. 684-90.
I am sending you some good odds & ends of duplicate plants through Pamplin which will I hope prove useful to you. Bentham will arrange about copies of Gen. Plant.
4
Bentham & Hooker (1862-83).
I have made a frightful blunder in
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where I say "Australiae tropicae & subtropicae orient. incolae"
5
Bentham & Hooker (1862–83), vol 1, pt. 1, p. 291.
— for tropicae read temperatae of course. Bentham is working desperately hard on the Flora.
My Father is remarkably well, as busy as ever with his Ferns, I with
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6
See J. Hooker to M, 20 September 1862.
& "Genera Plantarum" — he is counting on the unrivalled wood of Victoria from the Exhibition.
7
That is, to receive for Kew the woods described in the catalogue of the International Exhibition, London 1862 (1862), p. 144, item 226; W. Hooker was a member of the jury for the relevant section. The jury’s comments of which on some of the specimens of timber in the 'magnificent collection' were published in International Exhibition, London 1862 (1863), Class 4, Section C, p. 36. See M to W. Hooker, 20 December 1862.
Ever dear Mueller most ty yrs
Jos D Hooker
Col. Munro, writes me word that the exquisite grass you wrote about & enclosed
8
See J. Hooker to M, 20 September 1862.
(like a
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) is a totally new form of Panicum for which he proposes the mss name pachy[g]luma but he does this in ignorance that you will probably publish it (he will not so there is no fear of your clashing.) I am writing to him & will tell him you will publish it under what name you think proper in the Fragmenta probably.
9
M published the grass as Panicum munroi (B66.12.04, p. 204).
- I have not hunted for it through the Herb. but could not find it in Panicum or
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