Ferdinand von Mueller

Melbourne bot Garden

20./12/62

Having, my dear Dr Hooker, written to your venerable father & to Mr Bentham by this mail,

1

M to W. Hooker, 20 December 1862; the letter to Benthamis presumably M to G. Bentham, 24 December 1862 (in this edition as 61-12-24a).

you will pardon me if I but briefly respond to your kind note of 20 Sept,

2

J. Hooker to M, 20 September 1862.

especially as I am in the bustle of arrangements for a new dash into the alps. I am bent for the Barkly ranges (originally discovered & named by me)

3

M first explored the upper reaches of the Macalister River, Vic, in the summer of 1858-9 and named the Barkly Ranges; the name has not survived.

& in most parts not yet traversed by any human being.

I was highly gratified that you paid to my deserving friend Mr [J.] Walt. Osborne so much kind attention.

4

See M to J. Hooker, 24 April 1862.

To your exposition of the

Welwitschia

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we are all looking forward with intense interest, the more so as no one can form a remote idea of this wonderful plant.

5

See J. Hooker to M, 22 August and 20 September 1862.

Pray give Prof Harvey my kind regards. I see his brother in law from time to time

6

J. J. Phelps.

Mr Jul[.] Haast has sent me a host of dried plants from the Southern provinces of N.Z.; several of them are new, but as it would be encroaching on your own well cultivated field I do not intend to interfere with your elucidation of the same, for which you will have received simultaneously material. He is off again to Mount Cook.