Document information

Physical location:

RB MSS M3, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. 80.06.29

Plant names

Preferred Citation:

Joseph Hooker to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1880-06-29. 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/1880-9/1880/80-06-29-final.odt>, accessed June 9, 2026

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MS embossed with crest of Royal Gardens Kew.
June 29 /80
My dear Mueller
As I do not know Dr MacGillivray's Xtian
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Christian.
names & you do not say what they are, I cannot go ahead with his certificate for the Linnaean
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i.e. Linnean Society, London.
which I enclose for you to fill up & return to me when I will get it signed & sent in.
I will see to the nomenclature of the
Eucalyptus polyanthemos

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. which has borne that name for many years in the Gardens.
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For MacGillivray proposal and E. polyanthemos , see M to J. Hooker, 13 May 1880, in this edition as 80-05-13a.
Its ultimate branches were much cut up by last winters frosts &c but it is budding now all along the leading branches.
Ever sincy yr
Jos D Hooker.