The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: Melb. bot Garden, ¶ 23/6/64 ¶ My dear Dr Hooker. ¶ ¶ If I rightly remember I mentioned to you before, that on my suggestion the son of Mr Travers has collected plants in the Chatham Islands with a vi...

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RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, un-numbered letter after f. 146. 64.06.23a

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Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1864-06-23 [64.06.23a]. 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/64-06-23a>, accessed April 19, 2025

Melb. bot Garden,

23/6/64

My dear Dr Hooker.

If I rightly remember I mentioned to you before, that on my suggestion the son of Mr Travers has collected plants in the Chatham Islands with a view of affording me an opportunity of throwing more fully light on the vegetation of this little group. Within the last weeks I have received a set of the specimina and am now engaged in elaborating an essay to be printed here thereon. As the collection inclusive of numbers only about 150 species, I shall soon finish my memoir,

B64.10.02.

especially as few, (if any) new species have been brought by Mr Travers. You informed me some months ago, that the volume of the of N.Z. had almost passed the press;

J. Hooker (1864-7), part 1. See J. Hooker to M, 19 March 1864.

hence for it any remarks

any remarks is marked in the margin with a cross.

of mine will come too late; however they will be available for some supplemental pages of the second volume, whilst the comparatively few will be available for the second volume, in as much as you will have my pamphlet either by next mail or that following.

Have you seen Dr von Hochstetter's plants collected by him in New Zealand? It is not unlikely that it would yield you some additions, & I should imagine that Fenzl would be quite willing to place them from the Vienna Museum at your disposal.

I have recently looked on again & established a curious new genus, which has the petals more deeply inflexed and quite as tender as many .

M erected Mackinlaya (M. macrosciadea) in B64.06.01, p. 120.

Planchon probably & certainly Miquel has multiplied the Genera too much, as you will find yourself when once assigning to them their proper limits in your genera.

Bentham & Hooker (1862–83).

With my kindest regards to your venerable father & your self

I remain your

attached

Ferd Mueller

Will you kindly send the few volumes despatched by this mail to you on to Harvey?

Had I your manual it would have been useful to me for my Chatham Essay.

Will you kindly … my Chatham essay in the margin of the front of the sheet.

I believe I mentioned that Mr Burrows has by last mail taken charge of a small case of living plants for Kew

See M to W. Hooker, 7 May 1864.

is found mostly on King's Island & thus furnishes a new genus for the Tasmanian Flora. The Banksia on the Sisters

An island off the NW coast of Tasmania, west of Wynyard.

of Tasmania is certainly L. fil. Will you kindly let me have from poor Dr Booths

Boott?

plants back my Carices?

I believe ... back my Carices? is written on a separate un-numbered half-sheet bound with this letter, of which it is probably, but not certainly, a part.