The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: State Garden, Melbourne ¶ 27/5/67. ¶ ¶ The recent transfer, dear Dr Hooker, of my Department from the Chief Minister to the Minister of Lands ¶ has involved me in so many additional troubles & has c...

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RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, ff. 269-70. 67.05.27b

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Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1867-05-27 [67.05.27b]. 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/1860-9/1867/67-05-27b-final.odt>, accessed June 4, 2026

MS annotation by Hooker: 'Answd'.

State Garden, Melbourne

The address is an official stamp, the words encircling a crown.

27/5/67.

The recent transfer, dear Dr Hooker, of my Department from the Chief Minister to the Minister of Lands

See M to J. Grant, 6 April 1867.

has involved me in so many additional troubles & has caused so many disturbances & inconveniences, that really I cannot do much for Kew at this moment, nor have I been able to send off the s & a supplemental fascicle of . This shall however be done as soon as possible.

The final were not sent until 3 August 1867. (RB MSS M44, M notebook recording despatch of plants to Bentham for Flora australiensis, Library, RBG Melbourne).

This is the great month also for distribution of plants to Cemeteries, School & Church reserves, so I have not much leisure. Of the gigantic extent to which these unique operations are here carried out I may mention, that I have alone about 40,000 ready to be given away!, all twice transplanted.

Will you kindly tell Mr Bentham, that I will endeavour to send the £100 for vol. IV by the next mail. The will go along with &c. Indeed they are nearly ready, including Drummonds species. I have sent a few seeds by the Colonial Office.

Your regardful

Ferd Mueller

I am very grateful for the second vol of the flora of NZ.

Hooker (1864-7).

You are wonderfully productive in literary work

You will have observed that Dr Buchenau has established the priority of the R & P

Ruíz Lopez and Pavón.

over T. triandra, also that he regards (and rightly so) T. nana

M had described Triglochin nanum in B55.13.07; see Buchenau (1868), pp. 219-22. Buchenau's article was published in March 1867.

a good species. Why is in English Archipelagus called Archipelag o ? How is Mr Oldfield. I long since intended writing to him but could not find leisure

Capt Smith, R.N., your voyage-companion, bids me to send you his best regards.

Alexander J Smith, Purser's Mate on Erebus during Ross's Antarctic expedition, 1839-43.

He has just a graceful charming daughter bursting into bloom. I have examined numerous seeds of ( ) They vary as you stated with 2 or 3 cotyledons in most if not all species.

J. Hooker (1860), vol. 1, p. 352.