The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: 21/10/84 ¶ Dear Sir Joseph ¶ ¶ Let me acknowledge with best expressions of thanks your kind sentiments conveyed in your letters of 15. & 31. Aug.; ¶ also accept my thanks for the information conveye...

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RBG Kew. Kew Correspondence, Australia, Mueller. 1882-1890. f. 120. 84.10.21b

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Clethra
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Dendrobium Gordoni
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Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1884-10-21 [84.10.21b]. 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/1880-9/1884/84-10-21b-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

21/10/84

Dear Sir Joseph

Let me acknowledge with best expressions of thanks your kind sentiments conveyed in your letters of 15. & 31. Aug.;

See J. Hooker to M, 15 August 1884 (in this edition as 84-08-15b) and 31 August 1884 (in this edition as 84-08-31a).

also accept my thanks for the information conveyed. It is good, that your health is firm, so that you can carry on your glorious work uninterruptedly. Can we hope for a supplemental volume of the "genera"?

Bentham & Hooker (1862-83).

I know the real as well from A. Rich. plate, as from a cultivated specimen, and believe D Gordoni quite distinct from it. One of my best dreams or visions, to get first the high-land-plants of New Guinea, will not likely be realized, since Mr Forbes

Henry Ogg Forbes.

takes the field. To you there it might seem, that I ought to have gone myself; but matters became so complicated here, when the Department was broke up, and so much intrusion takes place on my little remaining province or is likely to take place, that I could not trust myself away, for any lengthened period and neither my public nor private means admitted, to send a party equipped or even a good collector purposely, who single-handed could not accomplish much. Perhaps Mr Forbes will let me have some orders of plants for elaboration; and with this view I have offered him through the Missionaries of Port Moresby a monetary subsidy.

Regardfully ever your

Ferd. von Mueller

Could be transferred to ?

Saxifraga? or e?

When at Dr Buettners House I could only take a very small number of books with me for reference

M had been living at Alexander Büttner's house while he was ill, before he went on a collecting trip to the west of Victoria; see M to J Hooker, 8 September 1884.