The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: Melbourne ¶ 12/5/74. ¶ ¶ Herewith, dear Sir William, I beg to send you a copy of a print, in which I restored your honored name among ferntrees, ¶ having nearly 10 years ago, after Sir Will. Hooker ...

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Physical location:

A2939 Macarthur papers, vol. 43, pp. 112-12, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney. 74.05.12

Plant names

Alsophila
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Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to William Macarthur, 1874-05-12. 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/1870-9/1874/74-05-12-final.odt>, accessed June 4, 2026

Melbourne

12/5/74.

Herewith, dear Sir William, I beg to send you a copy of a print, in which I restored your honored name among ferntrees,

M described Hemitelia Macarthuri in B74.04.01, p. 176.

having nearly 10 years ago, after Sir Will. Hooker had returned my whole collection of e unnamed and ignorant or inconscious of the desire of our late friend to honor you similarly, given the then for you intended away to the memory of Leichhardt, and of whose collection I had an autographic specimen, gathered in 1842, so that he appeared to be the first who discriminated that particular tree-fern

leichhardtiana , described by M in B65.07.03, p. 53.

With deep regards

Ferd. von Mueller