Ferdinand von Mueller

1

MS annotation: 'Ansd [1]9 [Jny]'. Letter not found.

2/12/68

In a letter, dear Dr Hooker, just received from Prof. Lindberg, M.D., Helsingfors,

2

Letter not found.

he says that he has in the University Library there neither the Flora Novo-Zeel. nor the Flora Tasmanica.

3

J. Hooker (1853-5); J. Hooker (1860).

Evidently these Russian Institutions

4

Finland was at the time part of the Russian Empire.

are very inadequately endowed. Without wishing to be immodest it occurs to me to ask you, whether you perhaps happen to possess proofsheets of the bryologic portions of these valuable works of yours. If so perhaps you would perhaps with your usual generosity spare them for the Professor, who evidently is a keen observer & a sedulous and conscientious worker, who deserves any support in his bryologic studies. Dr Regel would of course see anything forwarded to him. I think it is well that Dr Lindberg looks over my mosses, which I sent him on loan, in order that his views may be contrasted with those of Hampe & C. Mueller, who worked on the majority of these plants before. A choice of the opinions thereon can then be taken for the cryptogamic volume of the Australian Flora.

5

No cryptogamic volume of Flora australiensis was ever published.

I quote a sentence from the Professors letter which is quite touching:

" I will do my best , but beg only that you may have forbearance with the poor isolated Lindberg, who never has been rich enough for a travel to England, this in every respect richest land of the world."

Prof Hegelmayer

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Hegelmaier. Letter not found.

writes from Tuebingen, that he never yet saw flowering (much less fruiting) specimens of

Lemna polyrrhyza

Search for Lemna polyrrhyza in

• This website
• Australian Plant Name Index

! Have you none at Kew? If so perhaps you would spare the Professor one.

7

No evidence has been found in the Kew archives that Hooker sent specimens to Hegelmaier.

Dr. J.D. Hooker FRS

Kew