Ferdinand von Mueller

15/3/78.

I have no fruits of Capparis Mitchelli

1

Capparis mitchellii?

here in my collection, fit for your Museum, dear Mr Dyer, but have at once appealed to correspondents in the interior, to procure good samples of this fruit.

2

See W. Woolls to M, 8 March 1878 (in this edition as 78-03-08a); W. Woolls to M, 13 May 1878 (in this edition as 78-05-13a); and M to W. Thiselton-Dyer, 17 May 1878.

Recently some seeds, gathered by me in W. Austr, were forwarded to Kew, and by the mail after this month I shall send an other and different supply.

3

There are monthly entries for seeds received from M in 1878 (two entries for April) in the 'Kew Inwards Book 1878-1883', but they do not all indicate the species, or from where they were collected.

I like occasional return-sendings for such seeds, but they must be sent to me direct under my own name by post, and not through the bot. Garden here , until my Directorship is reestablished for which I daily strive and for which my Directorial Colleagues in Europe and particularly in Britain should give a strenous support.

So little do I know what goes on in the out-world, that I only very recently learned of your happy union with Miss Hooker. Pray accept under these circumstances my best congratulation though offered so late.

4

Thiselton-Dyer married Harriet Anne Hooker on 23 June 1877 (Allan 1967).

I like that in the Kew reports I obtain personal credit for any sendings of seeds, to strengthen my claims for the resuscitation of the Directorship.