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RB MSS M3, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. 80.11.08

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Joseph Hooker to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1880-11-08. 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/1880-9/1880/80-11-08-final.odt>, accessed May 16, 2026

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MS embossed with crest of Royal Gardens Kew.
Nov. 8 /81
My dear Von Mueller
Are you sure that what you have sent me as the "young leaf of Ptychosperma Normanbyana "
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P. normanbyi? See M to J. Hooker, August 1880 (in this edition as 80-08-00) and M to J. Hooker, 1 January 1881 (in this edition as 81-01-01b), n. 2.
belongs to that species — it does not resemble a Pt. leaf in texture & indumentum I think.
Certainly
Bacularia

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must be retained but I am not sure that Kentia minor belongs to it. I have not yet determined.
Oliver doubts if the material for drawing
Chloanthes Elderi

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is good enough to get a plate up for the Icones. Fitch having given up work has driven us to very inferior artists for botanical drawing, & I was for long in the utmost straits in regard to the Magazine — my daughter Mrs Dyer did some but she has now a family to attend to. My sister in law (Prof Henslow's youngest dau.) Mrs Barnard (A. B.)
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Anne Barnard, née Henslow.
draws beautifully but is an invalid residing near Cheltenham. I have been for 2 years training a distant relative, a Miss Smith (M. S. of Bot Mag) who will I think do well & who has just begun lithography.
Bentham is in anxiety Mrs B. having broken her leg. She is 82 years old, & is doing well .
I am still fighting with Palms.
Very sincerely yr
Jos D Hooker