The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: Melbourne bot.Garden ¶ 11/8/70. ¶ ¶ Let me thank you, dear Dr Hooker, for your goodness in sending me several valuable seeds by last mail. I am also obliged for your transferring the Goldmass imitate...

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RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, f. 444. 70.08.11b

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Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1870-08-11 [70.08.11b]. 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/1870-9/1870/70-08-11b-final.odt>, accessed June 5, 2026

Melbourne bot.Garden

11/8/70.

Let me thank you, dear Dr Hooker, for your goodness in sending me several valuable seeds by last mail. I am also obliged for your transferring the Goldmass imitated in Gypsum to the British Museum. As yet however I have no acknowledgement from Prof Maskelyne or any one else on the subject.

See M to J. Hooker, 11 August 1869 (in this edition as 69-08-11b). There is an undated entry in the Mineralogy Accession Register at the Natural History Museum (London): '81629. Model of the "Welcome Stranger" Gold Nugget which was found near Dunnolly, Victoria. The nugget weighed over 2, 280 ozs [ounces] yielding over 2, 268 ozs of gold.' The register column in which the source of the specimen would be recorded is blank. The entries are not in chronological order, so it is not possible to determine an approximate date of receipt or registration.

What a remarkable paucity of in Australia! This was never more apparent then when we look over Weddell's elaboration for D.C.

Weddell (1869).

In looking over your admirable Students Book

Hooker (1870).

I was struck by the absense of Rich.

M refered to this letter in B73.06.01.

On the islands of the coast of Schleswig I saw it accompanied by Weigel. Hence I think that will yet be found in the Channel Islands. An other seacoast plant might be sought for there and elsewhere in Britain, just as it occurs on the Danish [Hallige,]

The Halligen, small low islands in the North Sea off the coast of Schleswig-Holstein, now part of Germany.

namely ( Nolte.) That plant grows much with there and is so similar to it at a distance that it may be readily passed without notice.

your always

regardful

Ferd. von Mueller

MS annotation: Bonplan[d] 185[8] /[8].