Ferdinand von Mueller

26/12/66

I have to respond to your kind letters by last mail, dear Dr Hooker.

1

J. Hooker to M, 19 October 1866 and J. Hooker to M, 23 October 1866?

If by my hasty remark on the Fungi sent to Mr Berkeley I have given that reverend and excellent man any pain, I most readily retract it.

2

No 1866 letter to J. Hooker or M. Berkeley containing a specific critical remark about Berkeley has been found; but see M to J. Hooker, 9 September 1866, and J. Hooker to M, 23 October 1866.

I will write to Mr Berkeley if you desire it. Since about 10 years I have from time to time sent fungi to this great observer through your lamented fathers mediation of these fungi in 1860 I was favored with a list of those sent up to that time and the names were printed in my report of 1861,

3

B61.02.01.

but as no diagnoses were transmitted, the few new species remained unpublished ever since. It is true I might have worked out the diagnoses when so far guided, but then would it not have been a pity for me with my small experience among fungi and with my limited means of work? Ever since 1860 I have not received any more information on the species sent, and this has tended much to discourage me from collecting: I now send 8 or 9 species from Cape York! As the locality is a remarkable one, the reverend Mr Berkeley would perhaps examine & describe them.

4

Specimens collected by Eduard Daemel included in Berkeley (1873).

Otherwise pray send them to some other mycologist.

5

As the … mycologist. is marked with a cross in margin.

You will receive more of the

Mesembryanthemum tegens

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. It is a lovely plant. It reached Edinburgh safely.

6

See M to J. Balfour, 27 December 1866 (in this edition as 66-12-27a).

I will continue sending [seeds] as such may be given away for interchanges should you not require them yourself

The

Cardwellia

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&

Darlingia

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[seeds] were all from different lots successively obtained.