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Physical location:

RB MSS M3, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. 61.12.08

Plant names

Preferred Citation:

Joseph Hooker to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1861-12-08. 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/1860-9/1861/61-12-08-final.odt>, accessed June 4, 2026

Kew Dec 8th/61.
Dr Dr Mueller
I have little to say but that we are all well & busy. Thanks for your last with the accompanying enclosure.
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M to J. Hooker, 24 September 1861.
What a kind fellow Harvey is. I am sure you have acted both liberally & wisely. — Bentham has already begun with the
Dilleniaceae

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. having to revise that order for Gen. Plant.
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Bentham & Hooker (1862-83).
he took the opportunity of doing the Australian species — he found a good many in Brit: Mus. that were unknown elsewhere. Sonder is sending over all Plant Preiss
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Plants collected by Ludwig Preiss in WA, 1838–42.
but they have not arrived yet. I very much hope that you will get on with Victoria Flora;
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B62.02.01.
it is a capital work, & will cost you more labor than you perhaps anticipate to complete it.
We have just gone to press with the 1st part of Genera Plantarum but it will be 4 months before it is out. The Sapind.
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Sapindaceae

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Terebinth
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Terebinthaceae

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, a Jussieu group that Bentham and Hooker distributed between a number of different orders.
& all these orders have cost us immense labor. as it is we have been 3 years at DC vol I!
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A. P. de Candolle (1823-73). Vol 1 of this work includes orders from I Ranunculaceae to LIV Coriarieae, while the first volume of Genera plantarum covers orders up to LVI Connaraceae.
We hope however to get on faster after this & this work will facilitate local Floras very much indeed.
Welwitch has sent the Tumboa to be described by me in Linn. Trans. as
Welwitschia

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,
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J. Hooker (1863).
it is certainly the most marvellous plant discovered since Botany was systematized — more curious certainly though less striking in some points than
Rafflesia

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— it is certainly
Gnetaceae

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Baines has sent us a sketch of the same thing from Dammara land
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Damaraland in southern Africa, part of modern Namibia.
together with very imperfect specimens.
We continue to receive very remarkable collections from our West African collector Mann,
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Gustav Mann.
who is now at St Thomas
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São Tomé.
& going to Cameroons mountains.
Ever most ty yrs
Jos D Hooker