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RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, un-numbered letter after f. 147. 64.07.25b

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Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1864-07-25 [64.07.25b]. 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/1860-9/1864/64-07-25b-final.odt>, accessed June 4, 2026

Acclimatisation Society's Office,
30, Swanston Street.
Melbourne, 25 July 1864
My dear Dr Hooker.
I send you herewith some proof of the print of the Chatham Islands plants.
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B64.10.02.
The work has been finished up to
Monochlamydeae

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& I hope the whole inclusive of ferns & exclusive of the lower
Cryptogamae

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will be sent by next mail. That I reduce Veronica salicifolia & V. elliptica with two of their allies as varieties to one species, for which I adopt the name V. Forsteri & that I have united all Epilobia & carried out other similar reductions is not the result of chimera or silliness but of a most conscientious & patient investigation of very extensive material in my large New Zealand collection. The two
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e I have not named though they may be new; at least I have failed to identify them. Mr Travers did not send flowers or fruit of them.
Mr Moore-[Esmeades]
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Graham Francis Carrick Moore / Graham-Francis Moore-Michell-Esmead.
who might send seeds of Italian trees & shrubs
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who might ... shrubs is a marginal note with the intended position indicated by an asterisk. The request for seeds has not been located.
request for seeds shall be attended to as soon as I have leisure.
By this mail you receive a good collection for Kew Gardens.
I hope you will not forget my garden also; especially as you have it in your power to let me participate in so many of your easily multiplied plants. In orchids & Gesneriaceous plants I am poor here & comparatively also in Cacti & other succulents.
I have sent a good deel of seed to Palermo & Turin before & largely to Algeria.
How is it that so few of my new
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e &c distributed from here seem to have grown at Kew?
Will you kindly send me throught the Colonial Office the 1 vol of your N.Z. manual,
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J. Hooker (1864-7), vol. 1.
also Harveys & Sonders second vol.
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Harvey & Sonder (1859-65), vol. 2.
The latter I should have been glad to have consulted in reference to some
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, but it will now be too late I fear.
Allow me to mention that the genus
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is of mythologic derivation & for this reason D.C. chooses
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as a name for an allied genus, though it would have been better if the case had been reversed
With best wishes
Ferd Mueller.