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RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70. f. 20. 67.07.00

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Ferdinand von Mueller to [Joseph Hooker], 1867-07. 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/1860-9/1867/67-07-00-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

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MS annotation in pencil in an unknown hand: 'vol iii', i.e, Bentham (1863–78), vol 3: see pp. 387, 389). The correspondent is conjectural. It is most likely to have been Hooker, as a follow-up to the comment on the embryo of in M to J. Hooker, 15 May 1867 (in this edition as 67-05-15a). M reported the structure of the embryo of in B68.13.01, and the fragment is dated on the assumption that the earliest it could have been written was June 1867; the earliest known letter with which it could have been enclosed is M to J. Hooker, 25 July 1867 (in this edition as 67-07-25a).
Since I examined the fruit of I had occasion to examine also that of and find 2 or 3 cotyledons!