The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: 24/8/61. ¶ Dear Dr Hooker ¶ ¶ Many many thanks for the noble collection of dried Indian plants, with which you enriched our Herbarium. They came in my book case, but half the books were destroyed by ...

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RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-81, un-numbered letter after f. 48. 61.08.24c

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Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1861-08-24 [61.08.24c]. 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/1860-9/1861/61-08-24c-final.odt>, accessed June 5, 2026

24/8/61.

Dear Dr Hooker

Many many thanks for the noble collection of dried Indian plants, with which you enriched our Herbarium. They came in my book case, but half the books were destroyed by Saltwater, but the plants miraculously escaped!

I have pr Lincolnshire sent to Kew. & may after all be kept distinct. My s are then s.

Accept my best congratulation to the V.P. of the L.S. and pray express to Mr Bentham my congratulation to his new high position.

Bentham was elected President of the Linnean Society on 24 May 1861. J. Hooker was Vice-President.

The copy of Prof Harveys Cape flora

i.e. the first volume of Harvey & Sonder (1859-65).

arrived only within the last days. I am exceedingly obliged to him. His brother in law I see often.

See M to W. Hooker, 24 August 1861 (in this edition as 61-08-24a), n. 11.

I have sent some seeds to Kew by my countryman, Dr Guenther, the Surgeon of the "Anglesey" recently gone out.

I am glad Mr Bentham arrives at the same conclusion as myself respecting , upon which you find remarks by me nearly two years ago in the Fragmenta, referring it to

B60.02.02, p. 11; Bentham (1863-78) vol. 3, pp. 331-2.

Your truly

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Ferd Mueller