The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: 14/10/78 ¶ ¶ It is very kind of you, dear Sir Joseph, to offer me a set of the spare plants from Indian collections, now under the process of distribution at Kew ¶ I need not tell you, that from ¶ ...

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RBG Kew, Kew Correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-81, ff. 223-224. 78.10.14

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Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1878-10-14. 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/1870-9/1878/78-10-14-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

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14/10/78

It is very kind of you, dear Sir Joseph, to offer me a set of the spare plants from Indian collections, now under the process of distribution at Kew

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I need not tell you, that from any part of South Asia nothing can come amiss for aiding my studies of the plants of tropical Australia, which I trust to resume with renewed vigour after this protracted illness, from which I am now slowly recovering and mainly aris[ei]ng from the grief of the last few years.

I shall rent a larger House, so that I can store any Herbarium specimens you may send me; to my only room for Museum plants nothing is added since 1858! when Sir Henry Barkly got it for me.

In return I shall be able to offer you many rare plants, described since the flora Austral appeared, over 600 species, as I gradually put in order the material for the first supplemental volume.

Excuse kindly brevity as I am still very weak

Regardfully

Ferd. von Mueller