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Folder 2, box 58, James Hector, correspondence received, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa Archives, Wellington. 73.01.20aPreferred Citation:
Ferdinand von Mueller to James Hector, 1873-01-20 [73.01.20a]. 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/1870-9/1873/73-01-20a-final.odt>, accessed June 10, 2026
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MS annotation: 'Ansd 4/2/73'.
20/1/73.
This day, dear Dr Hector, I have got from my venerable friend, Dr Hampe of Blankenburg
the names of the few Chatham Island Mosses of Mr Travers last collection It was better
for me to place them in the hands of the oldest and greatest Bryologist of this time,
than to work with insufficient museum material and insufficient Library works on them
myself.
You are aware of the turmoils and anxieties, which I had to suffer for a long time
in my Department, and which are
far greater
, than those of our friend Dr Hooker, from whom I have just a long letter to day.
Be therefore charitable, when I have not yet finished the detail investigation of
all the Chathamian plants of Travers second visit. They contain however but little
real novelty. I trust to be transferred to the Chief Secretary's Department back where
I was for 12 year, and then with renewed courage & free from the present encroachments
on my position, I shall attend first of all to the Chatham plants.
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Presumably J. Hooker to M, 20 November 1872.
your Ferd. von Mueller
I have given a list of the genera long ago.