The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: Easterday ¶ 67 ¶ ¶ Your wishes, dear Dr Hooker, shall be attended to. ¶ An other case dry plants shall follow the Wellesley soon, perhaps already next week by the True Britain. ¶ Do you care for w...

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RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, f. 263. 67.04.21f

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Manihot
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Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1867-04-21 [67.04.21f]. 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/1860-9/1867/67-04-21f-final.odt>, accessed June 4, 2026

Annotated: Answd [June] 23rd [letter not found].

Easterday

In 1867, Easter fell on 21 April.

Annotated below date by J. Hooker: ‘1 April’.

Your wishes, dear Dr Hooker, shall be attended to.

The letter expressing Hooker's wishes has not been identified.

An other case dry plants shall follow the Wellesley soon, perhaps already next week by the True Britain.

Wellesley sailed on 1 April 1867. True Briton cleared out of Hobson's Bay on 4 May (Argus 6 May 1867, p. 4), but the next box of dried plants for Bentham was not sent until 3 August 1867 (RB MSS M44, M notebook recording despatch of plants for Bentham for Flora australiensis, Library, RBG Melbourne).

Do you care for weapons for Kew Museum, if the wood is correctly ascertained? We have now secured from India & New Caledonia for Australia. The plant seems hardy.

I have by this months mail the second fascicle of your lamented fathers filices.

Hooker & Baker (1868).

Is it not a pity that the observations are not brought up to date. Thus my fragmenta are entirely disregarded by Mr Baker.

For example, M's notes on Alsophila australis (B65.07.03, p. 52) and descriptions of Asplenium simplicifrons (B65.10.04, p. 74) were not mentioned by Baker.

I have now 13 well marked , two of which are new & shall be described in the next number of the fragmenta

The next species of to be described by M was not published until 1875 (Carronia multisepalea, B75.12.01, p. 171), although some new combinations were made earlier that year (B75.07.01, pp. 82-4).

Your attached

Ferd Mueller

1/4/67

'1/4/67' written by M on the otherwise blank left side front of the folio at the foot of the page, upside down in relation to the other text. This was the date Wellesley sailed from Melbourne.