The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: 27/11/66 ¶ ¶ My extraduties, dear Dr Hooker, connected with the Intercolonial Exhibition ¶ have been for many weeks past so heavy, that I could find no leisure for anything, & hence I can now, at th...

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RBG Kew, Kew Correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-1870, f. 244. 66.11.27

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Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1866-11-27. 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/66-11-27>, accessed April 19, 2025

MS annotation by [Hooker]: 'Answd Jay [10]/67'. Letter not found.

27/11/66

My extraduties, dear Dr Hooker, connected with the Intercolonial Exhibition

Intercolonial Exhibition of Australasia, Melbourne, 1866-7.

have been for many weeks past so heavy, that I could find no leisure for anything, & hence I can now, at the eve of the mail departure, only thank you for your goodness in sending me the Orchids, which arrived well, but the Manihot had perished

thank you for … had perished is marked in the margin with a cross and lines.

on the way. The Willows & Bramble will be most acceptable. They are such grateful plants.

What a pity, some one does not set to work to publish an index plantarum , to serve all gardens. We could then annually circulate such volume & mark off what at the time we have & what at the time we require. Could not some fifty gardens or Botanists unite to offer a prize of a few hundred pounds to stir on some well informed man to enter on the compilation? It is really much wanted! The Society of arts

Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, London.

might offer a prize for metal labels with unobliterable writing.

You will see that I regard the little dwarf Mesembryanthemum as new (M. tegens)

M described in B66.10.01, p. 157.

though near some South African species.

Xanthorrhoea & seem not at all to travel well, except X. minor. But I will send seeds.

Your regardful

Ferd. Mueller

I shall just be able to close the 5. vol of my Fragmenta at the end of the year.

Ought not a new edition of [Steudel]

Steudel (1840-1)? See also M to J. Hooker, 22 February 1867.

and more particularly of Lindleys Vegetable Kingdom

Lindley (1847).

to be brought out, and when are we, as I suggested to the Congress, to have a Flora Europea. I sent by last mail £15-6/-for the widow of poor Harvey, as this claim was made on me by the heirs of Mr Reeve.

See M to J. Hooker, 16 December 1867.

I send just samples of paper of , , several Eucalypti, &c to Sir Will Denison. My tars for the Exhibition have turned out well.

has germinated

My e (about 1000) are growing famously.