The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: 25/10/66 ¶ ¶ I owe you, dear Dr Hooker, my cordial gratulation to the well merited tribute, rendered to you by the two great & venerable centres of learning of Britain. ¶ These acknowledgements of t...

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RBG Kew, Kew Correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-1870, f. 241. 66.10.25c

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Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1866-10-25 [66.10.25c]. 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/1860-9/1866/66-10-25c-final.odt>, accessed June 4, 2026

MS annotation: 'Answd. Dec 14/66.' Letter not found.

25/10/66

I owe you, dear Dr Hooker, my cordial gratulation to the well merited tribute, rendered to you by the two great & venerable centres of learning of Britain.

Hooker was awarded honorary degrees by the Universities of Cambridge (Doctor of Laws, LL..D) and Oxford (Doctor of Civil Law, D.C.L), on 31 May and 13 June 1866 respectively. Alphonse de Condolle received the same degrees at the same ceremonies.

These acknowledgements of the immense services you have performed in the cause of science ought long before this have been yours.

The Exhibition duties

Intercolonial Exhibition of Australasia, Melbourne, 1866-7.

have prevented me to send you final copies of a new number of Fragmenta of which nearly all the proof is revised. It contains a new

laubatii, B66.10.01, p. 165.

& other very interesting plants.

My determinations of tar, acetic acid & woodspirits of [10] kinds of our gregariously distributed woods have turned out satisfactorely as to percentage.

The analyses are reported in B67.13.07, pp 241, 242.

, and seem to me only sections of one very natural genus. The coloring of in your flora Tasmanica

J. Hooker (1860), vol. 2, plate CVI, fig. B.

is not good. The enclosed sketch is very natural.

Enclosure not found.

The leaf is whitish underneath. The fringes of the labellum are white.

The box pr Sussex has arrived. Very many thanks for the Orchids, the & the you so kindly secured & for the arrival of which I am anxiously looking forward. Could not poisoned paper be manufactured for Herbaria?? —

Your attached

Ferd. Mueller

When will we have a flora of Europe.

The returned & seem all in good order