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MU 94, Colonial Museum registered correspondence 1871-83, box 3 (2555), Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa Archives, Wellington. 76.05.03Preferred Citation:
Ferdinand von Mueller to James Hector, 1876-05-03. 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/1870-9/1876/76-05-03-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026
1
MS black-edged: M's brother-in-law, Eduard Wehl, died on 11 February 1876. MS annotation
by [Hector]: 'Ansd 2.10.76'. Letter not found.
3/5/76.
2
M's letter was registered at the Geological Survey Office, Wellington, on 25 May 1876
and forwarded to Hector on 31 May.
Since a long time, dear Dr Hector, I intended to have written to you, but in reality
nothing specially occurred for doing so, unless to offer my felicitation to your return,
which gratulation now though tardily yet feelingly I do present.
3
Hector has been visiting Europe; see M to J. Hector, 28 July 1877 (in this edition
as 77-07-28a).
I was also anxious to ask you, whether a few notes on N.Z. & Chath. Isl. plants would
be acceptable for the new volume of the institute,
and if so by what time such brief memoranda must be sent.
4
New Zealand Institute, Wellington.
I have never heard again of the fate of my "industrial plants" after Dr Pollen acknowledged
the receipt of the corrected and supplemented copy.
Can you kindly tell me how the prospects are for this intended local N.Z. reissue.
Surely 5000 copies, sent out all over N.Z ought to do permanent & extensive good,
and that could be accomplished for about £200.
5
See G. Cooper to M, 6 October 1874 (in this edition as 74-10-06b), and M to G. Cooper, 3 November 1874.
6
See M. to G. Cooper, 3 November 1874, and notes thereto. The proposed NZ edition of
M's book was never published.
With best remembrance
Ferd. von Mueller.