Ferdinand von Mueller

Melbourne

bot Garden

29/2/72

In reply to your letter, dear Dr Hooker, from 17/12/71

1

J. Hooker to M, 17 December 1871.

I cannot give you any information on our palms beyond what I published in the fragmenta,

2

Hooker had referred in his letter to M's enumeration of palms in B65.07.03, p. 49; since that date M had published no further information on palms in his Fragmenta.

but I have a few supplemental collections and intend to work them up in the current number of the fragmenta,

3

M did not publish anything more on Palms in the Fragmenta until 1874: see B74.08.01, p. 221-2, and B74.09.02, p. 233-6.

as Dr Scheffer

4

Probably Scheffer (1873). The paper is dated August 1871 on its final page; M apparently received a copy before the complete volume was published; publication of the article was announced in Botanische Zeitung, 10 May 1872, col. 351.

has shed some more light on the proper limits of genera identical with ours or allied to them.

Mr Moore

5

Charles Moore.

reports

Livistona humilis

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at Cape Sidmouth,

6

East coast of Cape York Peninsula, Queensland.

but I have seen no specimen.

I had some Cundorango

7

See M to J. Hooker 6 September 1871, and J. Hooker to M, 1 December 1871 (in this edition as 71-12-01a).

bark since, and it is now under trial.

I hope soon to pass through the end of my ordeal, and am just in the midst of a crisis.