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RB MSS M3, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. 84.08.31a

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Joseph Hooker to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1884-08-31 [84.08.31a]. 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/84-08-31a>, accessed September 11, 2025

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MS embossed with crest of Royal Gardens Kew.
Aug 31 /84
My dear Baron
I must be short, as my poor Curator Smith
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John Smith.
has just lost his wife & has gone on leave in miserable health & Dyer
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W. Thiselton Dyer.
is laid up for a few days.
I enclose another list of our Australian desiderata put into my hands by Oliver just now.
We owe you a thousand thanks for the parcel received a fortnight ago.
Your New Guinea Lycopodium is L. squarrosum .
We have had a field day over the Dendrobium herewith returned.
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See M to J. Hooker, 9 July 1884 (in this edition as 84-07-09a).
It is clearly D. Gordoni Horne; but the doubt is whether it be not a form of the wide-spread D macrophyllum . I hardly think so
Oberonia Titania

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you will find in Folia Orchidacea ("Oberonia L. 8. no. 46 bis")
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Lindley (1852–[9]).
The
Gesneraceae

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is as you rightly say a
Dichotrichum

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See M to J. Hooker, 27 May 1884.
The splendid collections of Fern stems have I think been acknowledged — we wanted them to grow ferns &c upon but they are in such splendid condition that we propose to grow them & try some out of door method of keeping them alive by winter protection.
Bentham is alive but bedridden & cannot even sit up in bed. — I see him weekly but he does not converse & after 5' asked me to leave. It is sad to see such an end of such a life. he will neither see people nor even be read to! —
I hope your own health is better
Ever sincerely yr
Jos D Hooker