Ferdinand von Mueller

25, WILTON PLACE. S.W.

Sept 9 /74

My dear Sir

I have two or three of your letters which I ought to have acknowledged but I have had so much writing that I have had but little time or inclination for letters. I must now however write a line to say that your box of Monocotyledons has come safe to hand I found the parcels at Kew on my return from the meeting at Belfast

1

The British Association for the Advancement of Science met in Belfast from 18- 26 August 1874.

all apparently in good condition but I have not yet looked into them. I am working hard at Genera

2

Bentham & Hooker (1862-83), vol. 2, part 2.

of which we must get this part out before I do the last vol. of Flora Australiensis

3

Bentham (1863-78), vol. 7.

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have given me a great deal of trouble but we are now advancing rapidly

You mention again the freight on your boxes of specimens I can only repeat what I said from the first that the Kew Herbarium had agreed to pay the freight on the boxes that come from you , but that there is a difficulty about advancing the freight on the boxes sent from Kew , and as that was so stated from the first as you may see if you still have my early letters I cannot now require them to do more. I have always paid the repairing and packing the boxes (generally 10'/ to 12'/ each) out of my own pocket besides sundry small charges incurred — but I cannot undertake to pay the freight to Melbourne

4

See M to G. Bentham, 14 July 1874 (in this edition as 74-07-14a).

— However now that must soon come to an end I have only to hope that I may live to get through this last volume but I feel I am getting very old.

We had a good meeting at Belfast at which Dr Hooker's address at our Section was particularly successful as well as really most valuable

5

Hooker (1875).

Baron v. Mueller

The parcel of Lord Howe's Island plants contained only one set 91 species Dr Hooker is willing to give a fair price which I presume cannot be above 30'/

6

See M to G. Bentham, 12 June 1874.