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RBG Kew, Kew Correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1882-1890, f. 166. 86.02.17a

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Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1886-02-17 [86.02.17a]. 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/86-02-17a>, accessed May 5, 2025

17/2/86.
As I have written dear Sir Joseph, while congratulating Mr Dyer,
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M to W. Thiselton-Dyer, 17 February 1886.
also concerning your excellent son, I shall only offer a short letter this time, expressing my particular hope, that the evening of your life will be a long and serene one, and that you will attain at last your father’s and Mr Bentham’s age, thus living into the next century!
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Hooker retired from the directorship of Kew at the end of November 1885 and was succeeded by Thiselton-Dyer.
You will do grand work now for special phytography. The new genus of Laurinae with one celled anthers must be very interesting.
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Probably Syndiclis, erected (S. paradoxa) by Hooker in Hooker’s icones plantarum, vol. 16, 1886, plate 1515. However, it was described as having a one-celled ovary, not anther.
The Expedition of Capt. Everill
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The Bonito expedition to the Fly River estuary, Papua, 1885.
has not yielded much novelty among plants. As it was mainly a geographic expedition, and no high Mountains presented themselves at the Fly River System, mostly ordinary Malaian
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Malayan?
forms, well known, were got, d’Albertis
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Luigi Maria d'Albertis.
having also to some extent been over the ground before.
Mr Forbes treats the Austral. geogr. Soc., after its generosity to him unfairly , unless he mends. So also the hope, so long cherished by me, to render known the highland -flora of New Guinea may become blighted , after my writings drew mainly attention to it.
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Henry Forbes; M and others felt that were not receiving the promised specimens and geographical reports from his expedition to the Papuan mountains. See M to E. Strickland, 10 October 1885; M to W. Carruthers, 21 October 1885 (in this edition as 85-10-21a); and W. Carruthers to M, 1 March 1886.
I hope my geographic adress will please you; it evolves some new ideas .
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B85.13.25.
Regardfully your
Ferd. von Mueller.
Laurinae