The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: 5/5/66 ¶ ¶ I owe you still, dear Dr Hector, my grateful acknowledgement for sending me the Knightia fruit. ¶ I can now draw better limits between the 2 genera. I should have written long ago, but th...

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Folder 3, box 51, James Hector, correspondence received, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa Archives, Wellington. 66.05.05

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Cyathea dealbata
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Dammara
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Knightia
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Marattia salicina
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Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to James Hector, 1866-05-05. 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/1860-9/1866/66-05-05-final.odt>, accessed June 9, 2026

5/5/66

I owe you still, dear Dr Hector, my grateful acknowledgement for sending me the fruit.

Requested in M to J. Hector, 13 February 1866.

I can now draw better limits between the 2 genera. I should have written long ago, but the season was a terrific one for drought & with 20000 young trees planted out I had much anxiety on my mind, & much was left otherwise undone.

We have also in Australia, though only on the N. E. coast.

I am establishing a large fern tree gully here, but am still much in want of good sized stems of . They travel, even when 10 or 12' long quite well if carefully taken up with their root & merely thrown on a place not exposed to salt water

I have no more than 3 or 4 plants & not many of the NZ Podocarpi.

Can I send you any flowers for your garden? or can I render you any other services?

your regardfully

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Ferd Mueller