The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: Dec 31 /84 ¶ Dear Baron von Mueller ¶ ¶ I send you the best scraps we can afford of the Myoporum & Eremophila. ¶ There are but 3 flowers on the latter & one was dissected. ¶ ¶ Baker says that your ...

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RB MSS M3, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. 84.12.31b

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Eremophila
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Hymenophyllum Reidii
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Hymenophyllum javanicum
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Preferred Citation:

Joseph Hooker to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1884-12-31 [84.12.31b]. 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/1880-9/1884/84-12-31b-final.odt>, accessed June 4, 2026

MS embossed with crest of Royal Gardens Kew.

Dec 31 /84

Dear Baron von Mueller

I send you the best scraps we can afford of the & .

See M to J. Hooker, 31 October 1884, in which M asked Hooker if Kew could spare him leaf, flower and fruit of brevipes and leucophylla.

There are but 3 flowers on the latter & one was dissected.

Baker says that your

Presumably M's herbarium name on the specimen sent to Kew.

is = H. javanicum , Spr

Identified in an undated memorandum [by D. Oliver?], Kew Correspondence, Australia, Mueller. 1882-1890, f. 125: 'F. v. Mueller's , [FM] vide JGB = H. javanicum [Spng]'.

With all the best wishes of the season

Most sincerely yr

J D Hooker.

P.S. I do not know what is doing about a Memorial to Bentham.

See M to J. Hooker, 6 November 1884.

Masters

Maxwell Masters.

talked of a copy of the Linn. Soc. Portrait for Kew. In which case it would not be etiquette that the Kew Staff joined — we being the recipients as we were the dispensers of his benefits.

There are still a few copies of Gen. Plant

Bentham & Hooker (1862–83).

at Herbm at £6.15.4 Cash . Unfortunately Part i is almost out of print & I fear I shall have to reprint it to complete the remaining copies of other parts.