The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: 23/9/76 ¶ ¶ I have to thank you, dear Dr Hooker, for the presentation copy of your Primery Botany. ¶ It is an excellent work for beginners, and it is a wonder, that you could find time even for effo...

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RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-81, f. 184. 76.09.23a

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Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1876-09-23 [76.09.23a]. 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/1870-9/1876/76-09-23a-final.odt>, accessed June 4, 2026

MS black-edged: M's brother-in-law, Eduard Wehl, died on 11 February 1876.

23/9/76

I have to thank you, dear Dr Hooker, for the presentation copy of your Primery Botany.

J. Hooker (1876a). The copy is no longer in the library at the Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne.

It is an excellent work for beginners, and it is a wonder, that you could find time even for efforts in this direction

Regardfully

Ferd. von Mueller

In my School-flora the will take a place next to the ; and the next to the . I find no difficulty to dispose of the among & .

followed in B79.06.04; the second part of that work, which would have contained and , was never published. In his other systematic listings, e.g., B86.04.05 and B89.12.03, M followed the scheme proposed here. In Bentham (1863-78), followed the Labiateae and the Epacrideae. See Maroske (2006).