The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: 27./1./85. ¶ About three years ago, dear Sir Joseph, I sent you a copy of the print of my adress, delivered in opening the section for Agriculture, Horticulture and Pastoral pursuits in the Melbourne ...

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RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1882-90, ff 137-8. 85.01.27

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Fropiera
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Myoporum brevipes
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Plectranthus foetidus
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Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1885-01-27. 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/85-01-27>, accessed September 11, 2025

27./1./85.

About three years ago, dear Sir Joseph, I sent you a copy of the print of my adress, delivered in opening the section for Agriculture, Horticulture and Pastoral pursuits in the Melbourne Social Science Congress of 1880.

B80.13.09. The copy at RBG Kew, in F Mueller opuscula, miscellaneous 1878–89, is inscribed on the first page by M: From the first Vice-President of the Rural Section of the Social Science Congress; read Melbourne, Nov. 1880.

The whole edition of the volume, of which this discourse formed part, was destroyed before issue by the fire in our Gov. Printing Office here,

See Argus, 25 May 1882, p. 9.

and the volume has never appeared again. There is some chance for the reissue of this print now; so if you will let me have the Kew-copy, if even in loan only, I shall be much obliged.

MS annotation by Thiselton-Dyer: Prof. O. Have you got this address | Dupl. copy sent 8.4.85.

The complete volume does not seem to have been reprinted.

Regardfully

Your

Ferd. von Mueller.

Could you kindly spare an other copy of the Kew-report which contains the palm-list? I never got a copy of the last Guide to Kew-Garden and to Kew-Museum

MS annotation by Thiselton-Dyer: Sent 18/3/85.

For M’s thanks see M to W. Thiselton-Dyer, 28 April 1885 (in this edition as 85-04-28a). The guide-books M wanted were presumably Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (1884) and Oliver (1878), which were the most recently published guides. Palms were listed in J. Hooker (1884a).

The remainder of the text given here is bound as f. 138. Although f. 137 is not filled, it seems likely that the two sheets were sent and replied to together, since M to W. Thiselton-Dyer, 28 April 1885 comments on the contents of the annotations on each folio. (However, the specimen of Myoporum being acknowledged in one of these comments may have been sent in response to the request in M to J. Hooker, 31 October 1884.)

Plectranthus underlined in blue pencil.

has been fully referred to in the IX & XI vol. of the fragmenta, also noted in the "Census"

B75.11.02, p. 161; B81.13.14, p. 135; both references are in B83.03.04, p. 100.

Could a specimen of be spared at Kew.

There is a vertical blue pencil line in the central margin against this sentence.

I find none in the Collections here. It would be necessary to have an original specimen for my Monography; 80 plates to be prepared, all drawn already.

The species is illustrated in B86.08.05, plate 63.

MS annotations by Hooker : Prof O; by D. Oliver We have but 2 bits, a corner of a sheet. & I could not spare more than I have detached; and by [W. Thiselton-Dyer]: And March 20/85. Letter not found.

Might not

underlined in blue pencil.

be included in ?

MS annotation by D. Oliver: Vide Journ Linn. Soc. V. p.1. tab.1 — address of Sir Joseph’s! — A very bad I shd. say. [Reference is to J. Hooker (1861)] Definite (diplost.) stamens slightl eperigynous — Sessile stigma — & probably cor.-aestivation are against this affinity.