The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: 27/11/67 ¶ ¶ Your Wardian case pr Damaskus, ¶ dear Dr Hooker, has just arrived. About half the plants are alive, the other ¶ may ¶ partly recover. ¶ Accept my thanks for the consignment. The dry-...

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RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, f. 290. 67.11.27a

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Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1867-11-27 [67.11.27a]. 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/1860-9/1867/67-11-27a-final.odt>, accessed June 4, 2026

27/11/67

Your Wardian case pr Damaskus,

The clipper Damascus left Plymouth on 31 August 1867 and arrived in Melbourne on 17 November carrying, among other cargo, 'I case, Dr Mueller'. The Captain reported a slow journey through the tropics and meeting unsteady westerly winds and variable weather while sailing east between latitudes 43 and 45 degrees South (Argus, 18 November1867, p. 4).

dear Dr Hooker, has just arrived. About half the plants are alive, the other may partly recover.

See J. Hooker to M, 15 August 1867.

Accept my thanks for the consignment. The dry-plants, forwarded by the same ship, have as yet not been landed. Are they from you?

Your regardful

Ferd. Mueller.

I am glad th[at] Mr Berkeley's talents are now engaged on Austral fungs.

See J. Hooker to M, 7 August 1867. Berkeley's work was published in Berkeley (1873).

Ought not some notice appear on the second flowering of the Austr Terrestr Orchids? to bring these plants from other countries more generally into cultivation It seems a very grateful task.

The case with capsular &c sent by the "Lincolnshire" I trust you did safely receive.

Sent 5 October 1867 (RB MSS M44, notebook recording despatch of plants for Bentham for Flora australiensis, Library, RBG Melbourne).

Prof Ballon did not get my letter in time,

Baillon? Letter not found.

in which I asked him to send my directly to Mr Bentham for the 4th vol.

See M to G. Bentham, 21 August 1867.

— So I have still to send them from here. They arrived here this very day!

Some were sent to Kew on 18 May 1868 (RB MSS M44, notebook recording despatch of plants for Bentham for Flora australiensis, Library, RBG Melbourne). See also M to G. Bentham, 21 May 1868.

An extensive investigation of the percentage of Potash in the wood & also in the foliage of our trees is just drawing to a conclusion. The results are most satisfactory.

See B69.07.03, pp. 14-15.

We have now more than 150 species of Australian . I like Baillons treatment of them well.

Baillon (1866) described a number of species, including Euphorbia ferdinandi (p. 284), based upon the material from M's herbarium.