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Physical location:

RB MSS M3, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. 77.05.03a

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Preferred Citation:

Joseph Hooker to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1877-05-03 [77.05.03a]. 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/1870-9/1877/77-05-03a-final.odt>, accessed June 4, 2026

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MS embossed with crest of Royal Gardens Kew.
May 3 /77.
Dear Mueller
Enclosed are all the sheets of the School Flora that we have hitherto received
2
See M to J. Hooker, 20 February 1877. See also Lucas, Maroske & Brown-May (2006), pp 36-8.
— It will be a great pity if it cannot be published, though I must confess I do not like to see the introduction of such new terms as fruitlets in place of carpels which every child should be taught.
I cannot find any one to recommend the sending you the Elymi
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See M to J. Hooker, 18 January 1877 (in this edition as 77-01-18a).
in Sea-Sand nor were the plants to survive the voyage, would they be multiplied into a useful quantity [under] many years. What you really want is for Govts to take up such a matter in a large & liberal scale or not at all.
Ever most sincy Yr
Jos D. Hooker