The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: Melbourne bot. & zool. gardens, ¶ 17. Dec 1858. ¶ My dear Sir William. ¶ ¶ Just at the eve of my departure for the S.W. hitherto untrotten part of our alps, ¶ I am revising the print of an article, ...

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RBG Kew, Directors' letters, vol. LXXIV, Australia letters 1851-8, letter no. 186. 58.12.17a

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Ferdinand von Mueller to William Hooker, 1858-12-17 [58.12.17a]. 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//letters/1850-9/1858/58-12-17a-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

Melbourne bot. & zool. gardens,

17. Dec 1858.

My dear Sir William.

Just at the eve of my departure for the S.W. hitherto untrotten part of our alps,

In M to J. Macadam, 17 December 1858, M announces that he is leaving 'this day'.

I am revising the print of an article, which I read before the Institute some 8 months ago, but which has only now appeared.

B59.13.01: ‘Dr. Mueller exhibited and explained some specimens of New Australian plants’, Proceedings of the meeting of the Philosophical Institute of Victoria, 26 May 1858, Transactions of the Philosophical Institute of Victoria, vol. 3, p. ix.

I have written to Dr Hooker by this mail more fully.

See M to J. Hooker, 15 December 1858 (in this edition as 58-12-15a).

Trusting that I may be able to bring some interesting novelties home and thus complete the examination of our alpine Botany, I promise to let you have soon a share of my harvest.

With my sincerest wishes for your health

& happiness

your humble & grateful

Ferd. Mueller