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RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-81, f. 269. 80.05.06a

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Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1880-05-06 [80.05.06a]. 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/1880-9/1880/80-05-06a-final.odt>, accessed May 15, 2026

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MS annotation [by Hooker?]: 'Alston'.
6/5/80
It is very kind of you, dear Sir Joseph, to send me the pencil-sketches of the Eucalypts.
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See M to J. Hooker, 9 July 1879 (in this edition as 79-07-09b) and M to W. Thiselton-Dyer, 24 December 1879.
Thus a vacuum in my material for the "Atlas"
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i.e. M's Eucalyptographia (B79.13.11, B80.13.14, B82.13.17, B84.04.04, and B84.11.02)
is filled up.
Will you kindly be one of the sponsors of Mr P. H. MacGillivray for the Fellowship of the L.S? I have no forms of application left, but suppose, that you could put my name down on my behalf, these few lines bearing it out if formally necessary.
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MS annotation [by Hooker?]: 'Not knowing Mr Mcs Xtian name the form is sent to Dr Mueller' (see J Hooker to M, 29 June 1880). Mueller returned a completed form ((M to the Linnean Society of London, 12 August 1880), and MacGillivray was elected.
Many other Linneans must know Mr M'Gillivray, to sign the application-paper also. He is a M.R.C.S., is since 20 years in active medical practice in Victoria, has turned out an expert Surgeon, as he had charge of the Sandhurst
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Now Bendigo. Vic.
Hospital (in Victoria) for many years. What gives him claims for Linnean recognition are his writings on polyzoa
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MacGillivray published extensively on the group: descriptions and figures appear in different decades of McCoy's Prodromus of the zoology of Victoria, e.g. P. MacGillivray (1879) and in the Transactions of the Royal Society of Victoria, e.g. P. MacGillivray (1869). He continued to work on this group, including the fossil forms, after being elected FLS, e.g. P. MacGillivray (1895), P. MacGillivray (1895a).
With Regardful remembrance
Ferd. von Mueller.
I will send you successively a few more copies of the index of L. sp. pl. ed. I;
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B80.04.04.
as you may have friends like Mr Ball &c, who would like to possess it as something handy for quick reference
Of course, it will be known to you, that Mr M'Gillivray is the brother of the navigating Naturalist
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John MacGillivray (1821–67).
& son of Prof M'Gillivray, who wrote a [condensed] work on Baron Humboldts volumes.
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W. MacGillivray (1832) or a posthumous edition.
Mr M'Gillivray is in very lucrative practice.