The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: June 17 /85 ¶ My dear Baron ¶ ¶ I enclose herewith Mr Baker's naming of your Ferns. ¶ I do hope that your efforts to get New Guinea explored will be crowned with success, but I know from experience ...

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RB MSS M3, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. 85.06.17a

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Joseph Hooker to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1885-06-17 [85.06.17a]. 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/1880-9/1885/85-06-17a-final.odt>, accessed June 4, 2026

MS embossed with crest of Royal Gardens Kew.

June 17 /85

My dear Baron

I enclose herewith Mr Baker's naming of your Ferns.

Enclosure not found, but see annotations on M to J. Hooker, 4 May 1885.

I do hope that your efforts to get New Guinea explored will be crowned with success, but I know from experience how many reapers one must send out to get in a little corn.

Very many thanks for the stems which have not yet arrived.

See M to W. Thiselton-Dyer, 5 April 1885; M to J. Hooker, 24 April 1885; and M to J. Hooker, 3 May 1885.

— I hope they will live, but all that we have hitherto received died after throwing out a fine head of leaves & sometimes a flower spike as a dying effort.

What you say of may be true,

See M to J. Hooker, 27 January 1885, and M to J. Hooker, 3 May 1885.

I forget all about it except that it puzzled us all here, Oliver, Bentham &c. I have no time to look at it again. All my time now goes to Flora of British India,

J. Hooker (1875-97).

the completion of which will take the rest of my working days if I live long enough to complete it. Part XII should be out but the printing is unaccountably delayed & I bully the publisher about it to no purpose!

I have matter to the end of except for which I am expecting some materials from Dr King. gave me a great deal of trouble, & is after all left in a very unsatisfactory state.

Mr Bentham's affairs are not settled yet.

Very sincerely yr

Jos D Hooker

Your tree ferns are splendid in the Temperate House.