The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: Kew July 31/66. ¶ My dear Mueller ¶ ¶ I herewith sent bill of lading for box per Sussex. ¶ ¶ I note your want of Fern spores, which shall be attended to. ¶ ¶ I thought I had sent you ripe seeds of ...

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RB MSS M3, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. 66.07.31

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Crocus autumnalis
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Preferred Citation:

Joseph Hooker to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1866-07-31. 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/1860-9/1866/66-07-31-final.odt>, accessed June 4, 2026

Kew July 31/66.

MS embossed with seal of the 'Royal Gardens Kew'.

My dear Mueller

I herewith sent bill of lading for box per Sussex.

I note your want of Fern spores, which shall be attended to.

See M to J. Hooker, 15 May 1866 (in this edition as 66-05-15b).

I thought I had sent you ripe seeds of the

See M to J. Hooker, May 1865 (in this edition as 66-05-00e).

last winter, surely I did. I shall now send you more that will I hope still germinate, & put some fine young plants in a Wards case for you to go by first opportunity.

The I send are dried up, & others shall follow

Autumn Crocus also sent, & more shall follow.

See M to J. Hooker, 15 May 1866 (in this edition as 66-05-15b).

I have no copies of the Synopsis Filicum

W. Hooker & Baker (1865-8).

but will get one and send it by post. The work is not in my hands — Mr Baker will continue it, & it remains to be seen whether the publisher will give him any presentation copies. This is becoming a greater difficulty than ever with publishers who (truly enough) say, that we give our works to the very persons who would otherwise buy, & these are few enough. We get no presentation copies of the Colonial Floras. I buy all I give away myself of the New Zealand Handbook.

J. Hooker (1864-7).

I wish that your friends who return to your part of the world would let me know when they go, that I might send small Ward's cases of live Ferns &c: but they all get so distracted with England & especially London, that I hear nothing of them.

The above mentioned plants are packed in one box (Orchids, & ) & go by a Black-ball ship The bill of lading will be sent to you

Ever Yrs

JD Hooker