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RB MSS M3, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. 76.12.13

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Preferred Citation:

Joseph Hooker to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1876-12-13. 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/76-12-13>, accessed September 11, 2025

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MS embossed with crest of Royal Gardens Kew.
Dec 13 /76.
My dear Mueller
Thank you much for your very kind letter of congratulation of 23/9/76.
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M had congratulated Hooker on his marriage to Hyacinth, second wife and widow of the naturalist Sir William Jardine, Bart.
I am indeed pleased to hear that J. S. Mills Herbarium has been so acceptable. I have forwarded your letter to Miss Helen Taylor who has just been elected a member of one of the Metropolitan School-boards.
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See M to H. Taylor, 23 September 1876 (in this edition as 76-09-23d).
I have no botanical news to give, my time is so absorbed with the official work of Kew & the Royal Society that I have not done any-thing to the "Genera"
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Bentham & Hooker (1862–83).
since midsummer. I hope however to utilize the Xmas holidays for this purpose.
The
Correa Laurenciana

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C. lawrenciana?
with scarlet flowers will be indeed an acquisition; it has not yet arrived
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See M to J. Hooker, 4 October 1876.
Lord Stair grows
Eucalyptus amygdalina

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in Wigten shire
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i.e. Wigtownshire. MS annotation by M: 'S. W. Scotland'.
in the open air, & has asked me to get him some fresh seeds. Can you help me? if so I should be very much obliged.
Ever [sincerely yr]
Jos D Hooker