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RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, f. 358. 68.12.05a

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Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1868-12-05 [68.12.05a]. 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/1860-9/1868/68-12-05a-final.odt>, accessed May 15, 2026

5/12/68.
I feel very much indebted, dear Dr Hooker, for your considerate transmission of your luminous adress,
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Probably J. Hooker (1869); see M to J Hooker, 6 November 1868 (In this edition as 68-11-06a).
which from one in so eminent a position I shall especially treasure. Accept my best thanks also for your kindness in having furnished my correspondents with the packages out of the Kew cases. I have taken the liberty to trouble you again for similar purposes. I have sent the Lichens off, as Dr Lindberg, Prof in Helsingfors, has asked me for the Mosses. It is well that they should pass through more than one hand, as still the principles of specific and even generic distinctions among Lichens,
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so much vacillate. As Hampe has worked on these Lichens partially, I should like some British Lichenologist. — Nylander, or Babington,
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Churchill Babington.
or Leighton to work mine finally up for the Flora, unless Mr Bentham & yourself preferred Krempelhuber in Munich, of whom, as acquainted with Lichens, the venerable von Martius speaks so very highly in every one of his letters. Von Krempelhuber in all probability is also not so overloaded with material th[a]n the more fortunately placed British Lichenologists. — The excellent Mr Bentham goes on with the Flora at so rapid a pace that it becomes high time to provide for the cryptogamic volumes, which I suppose will be two.
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No cryptogamic volumes were published.
Dr Meller paid me an unexpected visit, which I much enjoyed.
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Charles Meller arrived in Melbourne from Mauritius on 27 November 1868, en route to New South Wales, Queensland and the Pacific Islands to collect different varieties of sugar cane for cultivation on Mauritius; he died in Berrima, NSW, on 26 February 1869 (Sydney morning herald, 11 March 1869, p. 1). M had begun exchanging plants with Meller soon after Meller became Director of Pamplemousses, Mauritius, in 1866 (C. Meller to J. Hooker, 5 September 1866, RBG Kew Directors' correspondence, vol. 188, f. 492).
Always your
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I suppose we shall soon have an other part of your inestimable genera !
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Bentham & Hooker (1862-83).