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Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1884-06-24. 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/84-06-24>, accessed September 11, 2025
24/6/84.
You will find, dear Sir Joseph, the article, in which I defend Mr Bentham’s and your
rights as regards authority for specific names after conjunction of genera in the
Botanisches Centralblatt 1884 N. 17 p. 118-122.
I hope that the Committee, which deliberates on bot. priorities &c now in London,
will take notice of my article.
1
B84.04.05.
2
Presumably a reference to a group set up to advise B. Daydon Jackson as editor of
the Index kewensis
(B. Jackson (1895)); see J. Hooker to M, 17 January 1884. See also B. Jackson (1924).
Regardfully your
Ferd. von Mueller