Ferdinand von Mueller

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MS annotation by Hooker: 'France [Benepracts] | Germy DeCandolle | England Lindley —Endlicher | S[candinav] Fries'.

22/12/64.

Dear Dr Hooker.

The copy of your manual of New Zealand plants

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J. Hooker (1864-7), part 1.

you presented to me arrived yesterday, & also the admirable dissecting instruments,

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See M to J. Hooker, 25 June 1864.

for both of which contributions I owe you my best thanks. I shall scarcely have time to point out any deficiencies at this moment, being overwhelmed with extraduties, but it appears on a glance I had on this fine publication that

Senecio Traversii

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published by me, in the Edinb. bot. Soc. journal

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B63.13.02, p. 154.

is omitted, likewise one of Graham's Lobeliae noted by D.C. (L. rugulosa)

I have written to Mr Bentham, soliciting Mr Will. Woolls of Paramatta election into the Linnean Society as an ordinary member. Though not a systematic author this Gentleman would prove a worthy member, being well deserving of admission into the Linnean rank by his zealous enquiry into the veg. of N.S. Wales, as the material in my herbarium sufficiently manifests. Mr Woolls lost his only two children, accomplished young ladies within the last two or three years, and I anticipate that phytologic studies will remain amongst the few charms of the autumn of his life. Mr Kippist is also asked to support Mr Woolls election

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See M to G. Bentham, 21 April 1865. William Woolls was elected FLS on 4 May 1865 with the support of M, Bentham, J. J. Bennett, J. Hooker and G. Macleay.