The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: Dec 18/68 ¶ Dear Dr Mueller ¶ ¶ I have forwarded your despatches to the Hort. Socy as you desire & do not doubt but that they may be found useful for their Journal. ¶ ¶ Thanks for the Contributions ...

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RB MSS M3, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. 68.12.18

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Gypsophila tubulosa
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Preferred Citation:

Joseph Hooker to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1868-12-18. 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/1860-9/1868/68-12-18-final.odt>, accessed June 4, 2026

MS embossed with seal of the 'Royal Gardens Kew'.

Dec 18/68

Dear Dr Mueller

I have forwarded your despatches to the Hort. Socy as you desire & do not doubt but that they may be found useful for their Journal.

See M to J. Hooker, 10 October 1868 (in this edition as 68-10-10a). B70.13.02 was read at the meeting of the Scientific Committee of the Royal Horticultural Society on 15 June 1869.

Thanks for the Contributions to Phytography of V.DL.

Van Diemen's Land (i.e. Tasmania). See B69.13.03.

which I was very glad to get. I do not at all, as you suppose regard you as a poacher on my manor.

See M to J. Hooker, 10 October 1868 (in this edition as 68-10-10a).

My Tasmanian work is over long ago & with it all claim to consideration on that score. You have marked with an asterisk but will find it at p. cvii.

J. Hooker (1860), in a list of naturalized plants, pp. cv-cix in the 'Introductory essay', also published separately as J. Hooker (1859a).

Why do you doubt its being only naturalized?

See entry for titraphyllum (sic: tetraphyllum), B69.13.03, p. 9, where M wrote that it ‘may not be originally indigenous’; asterisks in M's list indicated plants not in J. Hooker (1860).

Veronica peregrina & are also undoubtedly introductions

M marked both and Gysophila tubulosa with an asterisk.

Please fill up enclosed card

Not identified.

and return it. — I have hung Leichardt's

i.e. Leichhardt.

portrait in the Museum.

This mail takes out to you a bag of seed of the . They say it takes long to germinate. Plant it where birds cannot get at it.

Yrs

J D Hooker