Document information

Physical location:

Box 6, item 4, Royal Historical Society of Victoria, Melbourne. 63.12.02b

Preferred Citation:

Joseph Hooker to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1863-12-02 [63.12.02b]. 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/1860-9/1863/63-12-02b-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

1
Letter not found. MS is a summary by Charles Daley.
[Kew Dec. 2 1863
2
Daley's reading of the date is doubtful. Hooker asked for information about the Aborigines in J. Hooker to M, 19 September 1864, and thanked M for it in J. Hooker to M, 19 February 1875. The anthropologist John Lubbock only became Sir John on the death of his father on 20 June 1865, while he published his principal work on 'the natives' in 1870.
Asks about Augustus Oldfield — information. "I have plenty always to say to you but no time to say it now." — Wants terrestrial orchids. — tubers in the dry season Bulbs of all kinds acceptable Sir John Lubbock thanks M. for information supplied about natives.]