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RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70. f. 363. 69.01.01a

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Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1869-01-01 [69.01.01a]. 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/1860-9/1869/69-01-01a-final.odt>, accessed June 4, 2026

Newyears day 1869
Thousand thanks, dear Dr Hooker, for the transmission of the 1. vol of the Flora of tropical Africa.
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Oliver et al. (1868-77), vol. 1.
It reflects high credit on its accomplished authors and will be to me of especial utility, for comparisons of the tropical plants of Australia. I have the gift officially acknowledged.
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Acknowledgment not found.
Many thanks also for the specimen of
Posidonia

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. It will help still further on the comparisons. I am looking forward with grateful expectation to
Dionaea

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,
Sarracenia

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&c The public here want to see from time to time new and striking things. I am just providing my garden with a steam engine to raise the water of the Yarra River for irrigation over my 400 acres.
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See Lamb (1996).
From Kings Island I have recently
Elaeocarpus cyaneus

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& from Flinders Island
Pseudanthus ovalifolius

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. Thus 2 genera are added to your Tasmanian flora.
Wishing you health & happiness in the new year I remain
your attached
Ferd von Mueller
I have through Dulau [added] a copy of your icones.
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Hooker’s icones plantarum. In 1867, J. Hooker revived W. Hooker (1836–54), commencing the third series with Vol. 11 of the complete work; see J. Hooker (1867-89).
So I [have] all your valuable works complete.