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RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller 1871-81, f. 296. 81.01.15

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Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1881-01-15. 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/1880-9/1881/81-01-15-final.odt>, accessed June 9, 2026

15./1/81.
I have to thank you, dear Sir Joseph, for sending me the copy of your last annual report,
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J. Hooker (1881).
showing again the scope of the wide progressive labours of Kew. Will you allow me to draw your attention to the transfer of
Landolphia

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to Va[h]ea, effected in my enlarged edition of Wittstein's Chemistry of plants,
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Wittstein (1878), i.e. B78.06.09.
and continued in the Calcutta and now also in the still further augmented Sydney edition of my select plants.
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B80.13.07, B81.01.04.
Both works must be very handy to any bot. establishment. I was surprised, that A. de Candolle in his "phytographi[e]"
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A. de Candolle (1880).
took no notice whatever of my huge Museum of dried plants nor any thing else of my Department.
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See also M to A. de Candolle, 4 August 1880.
I cannot understand it. I do not care for myself, but do not like to see my Department unjustly ignored, though I got accustomed already to that in many ways. This evening I saw Miss North
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Marianne North.
after her voyage to West Australia, and bid her Adieu, as she will start for Tasmania in a few days. Her paintings of W.A. vegetation are grand. I particularly admired your fathers Euc. macrocarpa;
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i.e.
Eucalyptus macrocarpa

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; Her painting is illustrated at https://www.kew.org/mng/gallery/751.html (accessed 20 December 2019).
you probably have this brillant
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brilliant?
species at Kew, as I sent seeds repeatedly.
Regardfully your
Ferd. von Mueller.