The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: 28/8/80 ¶ ¶ The little book of Rev. G. Henslow, your brother in law, ¶ is very pleasing, dear Sir Joseph, and nothing better could be offered to the rising youth for imbibing the first knowledge on ...

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RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-81, f. 287. 80.08.28

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Bacularia
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Kentia minor
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Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1880-08-28. 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/1880-9/1880/80-08-28-final.odt>, accessed June 4, 2026

MS annotation by Hooker: 'And [Nvr] 8/80'.

28/8/80

The little book of Rev. G. Henslow, your brother in law,

Henslow (1880).

is very pleasing, dear Sir Joseph, and nothing better could be offered to the rising youth for imbibing the first knowledge on plants. I endeavoured to strike out some similar path in my "Teachings",

B77.08.01. See Lucas, Maroske & Brown-May (2006).

though not acquainted then with the Rev Gentleman's efforts in the same direction.

By last mail I sent you the number of the fragmenta, which contains my latest notes on Palms.

See M to J. Hooker, 10 August 1880. B80.02.02 contains notes on palms at pp. 88-9.

I also sent a few pieces of Palm specimens, so far as I had them, to your request.

See J. Hooker to M, 10 June 1880, and J. Hooker to M, 5 July 1880.

Travelling in our palm regions is so expensive and difficult and often very dangerous, that it is not surprising when we find the material so unsatisfactory.

Still, some of the collectors, particularly Dallachy, whom I have paid at the rate of £150 for 10 years as collector, might have done much better. The excuse was often, that it was such a thirsty country to travel through, before one get to the brooks, on which Palms grow.

After the Exhibition

International exhibition, Melbourne, 1880-1.

I may take a ramble to the north myself, though it will be [very]

Uncertain transcription: word partly obscured by binding.

expensive, to move about in the pristine pathless forests or fever-jungles.

M did not make the trip.

I anticipated you in the transfer of to ,

M described in B74.09.02, p. 235, but referred it to minor in B78.11.04, p. 58.

which genus was sufficiently defined for Wendland's ad[o]ptation, who rather selfishly put forward his , and who can well afford to leave in fairness at least that one genus to me.

M erected (B. monostachya) in B78.11.04, p. 58. M had provisionally given the name in B70.04.01, p. 103, and he is commenting on the footnote to H. Wendland & Drude (1875), p. 198, where it is claimed that the characters of the genus had been recorded, but not printed, in 1861 when it was introduced into the gardens in Hanover.

Regardfully

your

Ferd. von Mueller

You will be aware, that I reduced ( before Beccari ) to Kentia in the fragm.

M described a number of species of Kentia in B70.04.01, pp. 99-104.

Drude abopts

adopts? No published evidence that Drude recognized the genus at this time has been found, but he treated it as a subgenus of in Drude (1889), p. 67.

now also.