The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: 23/3/84. ¶ ¶ It is my pleasant duty, dear Sir Joseph, to acknowledge the receipt of part XI of your great “Fl. of Brit. Ind.”. ¶ This new one brings the work many steps forward. What a boon it will ...

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RBG Kew, Miscellaneous Reports 5, India: Miscellaneous 1878-1928, f. 23. 84.03.23

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Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1884-03-23. 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/84-03-23>, accessed May 13, 2025

23/3/84.

It is my pleasant duty, dear Sir Joseph, to acknowledge the receipt of part XI of your great “Fl. of Brit. Ind.”.

M received one of 35 presentation copies of this part of J. Hooker (1875-97); f. 20, headed ‘Part XI’, is a list in an unknown hand of 35 numbered names including ‘7 Mueller’. The first entry is ‘1&2 Herbarium 6 Feby 1884’; the other copies were probably also distributed at about that date. A few other letters acknowledging receipt are bound after f. 20.

This new one brings the work many steps forward. What a boon it will be, when the whole opus shall be ready, and how it will promote particularly the study of plants in India. Allow me to say, that in the notes on geographic distribution many omissions occur as regards Australia. The copy of Mr Dyer's new guide to the Museum of economic Botany

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (1883), prepared by William Thiselton-Dyer. See J. Hooker to M 17 January 1884. The guide appears not to have been issued until early 1884, and is favourably discussed as 'recently issued' in the Gardeners' chronicle, 29 March 1884, pp. 407-8. Publication in late January or February is consistent with M's receiving a copy in time to comment upon it in this letter.

is also very acceptable, and I am sure to find therein various data, which I can utilize, if I live, for the next edition of the “select plants”

The next edition was B85.12.03.

Regardfully your

Ferd. von Mueller.

Notes on Kew Guide to economic Botany.

These notes are on a separate sheet, now filed separately at RBG Kew, Kew Correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1882-90, f. 98, that may have been sent separately either to Hooker or to Thiselton-Dyer.

The fragrant Sandal-wood of W.A. is derived from S. cygnorum ;

Annotated by Thiselton-Dyer: want.

No smell of any strenght in S. acuminatum.

3 species available for oil-distillation; see “select plants”

See B81.01.04, p. 229.

Plum of sent by me, illustrative for

underlined and annotated by Thiselton-Dyer: Want good Museum sample.

much cultivated also in the W. hemisphere.

and some other species resin . (like Benzoin chemically)

Near Melbourne is a village Kew; a first rate English Gardener, Mr James Roberts, has an Exotic nursery there; with him I correspond much, hence the “lapsus calami” in the adress of one of my last letters to you.