The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: 21/3/64 ¶ My dear Sir William ¶ ¶ I have to thank you for your renewed token of generosity, manifested in the transmission of an other highly welcome fascicle of your great fern-work; that the finish...

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RBG Kew, Directors' letters, vol. LXXV, Australian and Pacific letters 1859-65, letter no. 180. 64.03.21

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Alsophila Australis
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Ferdinand von Mueller to William Hooker, 1864-03-21. 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/1860-9/1864/64-03-21-final.odt>, accessed June 4, 2026

21/3/64

My dear Sir William

I have to thank you for your renewed token of generosity, manifested in the transmission of an other highly welcome fascicle of your great fern-work; that the finishing fascicle is also nearly completed must gratify every man of science, for no one but yourself could have brought this noble standard work satisfactory to a close.

J. Hooker (1846-64).

It now only remains for you to supplement it by whatever material may have accumulated meanwhile at Kew. In deed every Botanist ought conscientiously place for that purpose his means at your disposal. Perhaps my collector in N. E. Australia

John Dallachy.

may also furnish you with some novelties. I looked recently over my large collection of Nov Zealand ferns & find several species in it, which Dr Hooker not enumerates in the flora of New Zealand;

J. Hooker (1853-5).

e.g. , & . But as Dr Hooker has no doubt received all these from the Southern Islands it will be useless for me to send these plants. My N.Z. herbarium comprises however about 30 large fascicles & when the "manuel" appears I can furnish the supplemental material.

J. Hooker (1864-7).

Perhaps however Dr Hooker on applying to Dr Hochstetter in Vienne might receive his herbarium of NZ plants, which I believe has species from some places not yet visited by other naturalists.

No evidence of such an application has been found.

I intend to send by this mail the whole 4 vol[s] of my works here published for your kind acceptance, as I believe you received never bound copies.

Presumably B62.03.03 and the first 3 volumes of Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae (B60.02.04, B62.02.03, B63.04.06). However, the Fragmenta volumes in the library at RBG Kew are inscribed to Bentham, except volumes 7 and 9 which have no inscriptions in the bound copies.

Trusting that you are in the enjoyment of perfect health I remain,

dear Sir William,

your attached

Ferd Mueller

I was delighted to see the at last introduced

Illustrated in W. Hooker (1827-1864), vol. 90, pl. 5423: 'Discovered by Mr Brown at Port Jackson; but it extends to Victoria (whence seeds were sent to us by Dr Mueller, 1862)'.

It is not likely that it ever will be lost again in Europe. Did I ever say that we have here the highest treeferns of the Globe. is not rarely 40' high on the slopes in very deep forest ravines and I am assured that this fern is found near Sealers Cove 60' high; nay some say (but I believe in exaggeration) 80'.