The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: 15/10/86. ¶ ¶ Best thanks, dear Sir Joseph, for sending part XIII of the Flora of British India. ¶ It is delightful, to see ¶ such ¶ a work nearing its completion, each part containing so much ori...

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RBG Kew, MR 103, Miscellaneous Reports 5, India: Miscellaneous 1878-1928, f. 31. 86.10.15a

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Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1886-10-15 [86.10.15a]. 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/1880-9/1886/86-10-15a-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

15/10/86.

Best thanks, dear Sir Joseph, for sending part XIII of the Flora of British India.

.The guardbook in which this letter is filed contains distribution lists of the parts of Hooker (1875-97), with date of despatch. M appears in all lists up to XXI, despatched 1 May 1896 (f. 52), where his name is crossed through on the list of recipients. No other acknowledgements of receipt from M have been filed in this location; but see, for example, M to J. Hooker, 6 October 1872, M to J. Hooker, 28 November 1878, and M to J. Hooker, 2 October 1885.

It is delightful, to see such a work nearing its completion, each part containing so much original research, your own portion being particularly masterly. I have

P. plebeium?

from some few parts of South Europe as indigenous also. Several of the Indian sp. extend also to Australia. So my s came too late;

M named a number of spp. from 1857 onwards; Hooker was unlikely to have seen descriptions of H. sayeriana (B86.11.01, p. 93), and H. forbesiana (B86.09.05, p. 63) when he was preparing the section on Proteaceae; he could not have seen H. cameroni (B89.13.11, p. 7). Hooker made no reference to any of M’s species in his treatment of .

perhaps you will deal with them at the end of the volume.

Your son Brian has got an appointment from the Government of Queensland.

Mineralogical Lecturer for the Qld Dept of Mines at Gympie, Maryborough and Bundaberg, 1886-9.

I fancy, Dr Mein’s brother helped in that, as he is a member of the present Ministry in Brisbane.

Charles Stuart Mein was Qld's Postmaster General from June 1884 and then Secretary for Public Instruction from 3 January 1885 until he resigned on 17 April 1885 when appointed a judge. He was not the brother of Dr George Augustus Mein to whom M introduced Brian Hooker (ADB; M to J. Hooker, 2 October 1885). See also W. Elliott to M, 3 August 1878.

Regardfully your

Ferd. von Mueller.