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RB MSS M3, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. 84.12.31b

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Joseph Hooker to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1884-12-31 [84.12.31b]. 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/84-12-31b>, accessed September 11, 2025

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MS embossed with crest of Royal Gardens Kew.
Dec 31 /84
Dear Baron von Mueller
I send you the best scraps we can afford of the & .
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See M to J. Hooker, 31 October 1884, in which M asked Hooker if Kew could spare him leaf, flower and fruit of brevipes and leucophylla.
There are but 3 flowers on the latter & one was dissected.
Baker says that your
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Presumably M's herbarium name on the specimen sent to Kew.
is = H. javanicum , Spr
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Identified in an undated memorandum [by D. Oliver?], Kew Correspondence, Australia, Mueller. 1882-1890, f. 125: 'F. v. Mueller's , [FM] vide JGB = H. javanicum [Spng]'.
With all the best wishes of the season
Most sincerely yr
J D Hooker.
P.S. I do not know what is doing about a Memorial to Bentham.
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See M to J. Hooker, 6 November 1884.
Masters
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Maxwell Masters.
talked of a copy of the Linn. Soc. Portrait for Kew. In which case it would not be etiquette that the Kew Staff joined — we being the recipients as we were the dispensers of his benefits.
There are still a few copies of Gen. Plant
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Bentham & Hooker (1862–83).
at Herbm at £6.15.4 Cash . Unfortunately Part i is almost out of print & I fear I shall have to reprint it to complete the remaining copies of other parts.