The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: The Camp. ¶ Sunningdale ¶ . ¶ April 16 /8 ¶ 8 ¶ My dear Baron ¶ ¶ Dyer tells me that you would kindly accept a more modern photograph of me than that you have. I take so little count of such things t...

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RB MSS M3, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. 88.04.16

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Preferred Citation:

Joseph Hooker to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1888-04-16. 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/1880-9/1888/88-04-16-final.odt>, accessed June 4, 2026

MS is black-edged. MS annotation by M: 'Answ 22/6/88. F.v.M.' Letter not found.

The Camp.

Sunningdale .

April 16 /88

My dear Baron

Dyer tells me that you would kindly accept a more modern photograph of me than that you have. I take so little count of such things that I have no idea what it is you have; but on the chance I enclose what is not I hope a duplicate — if it is please do what you please with it. I still think that the one by G. Wallich which was published in a series of Presidents &c by that gentleman is the best though faint.

Published by John van Voorst in 1870 in a set entitled 'Eminent Men of the Day: photographs by George Charles Wallich'; see National Portrait Gallery, London, NPG Ax14784 ( https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw131036/Sir-Joseph-Dalton-Hooker (accessed 1 June 2020)).

I also send an excellent little one of my father, taken not many years before he died.

Neither of the photographs sent by Hooker has been found.

My son Brian tells me that he is married to a Victorian Lady; I hope he has made a sensible match.

Sophie Willan, daughter of Precious Clark Willan, a selector of Morwell, Vic, married Brian Hooker at Traralgon, Vic, on 2 January 1888 (Victoria, Certificate of Marriage 394, 1888).

I am still toiling at the Indian Flora, & now correcting the proofs of the , which Order has given me a great deal of trouble. — Especially such genera as & , in which though I have reduced Weddell's there still I fear remain many bad species. has I am glad to say been done by King, a recent important contribution to Botany is his "Indo-Malaya Fici"

King (1888) is the first of a series of monographs published in the Annals of the Royal Botanic Garden, Calcutta dealing with this flora.

— no one else I expect could have done it. Poor Miquels work is scattered to the winds — as I quite expected it would be. Miquel was an old & very warm friend of mine, & I knew his family well, both at Rotterdam & Utrecht.

Systematic Botany seems almost centred at Kew, & yet what splendid collections there are at Leyden, Paris & St Petersburgh. I do wish that Maximowicz would publish a compendious Flora of Japan & that the Dutch in Java would take up the Malayan Flora. The Flora of the Straits Settlements is to be undertaken by King with me for a referee at Kew — King himself will I am glad to say be home this Summer, in the end of May, & will I suppose lay the foundations of the work. his leave will be only for 6 months so he will have plenty to do.

C. B. Clarke is hard at work at he is most pains taking an

and?

accurate.

I have been attacking the India e, by way of keeping my hand in at dissecting & finished , with nearly 40 species — so many are almost uniques that I suspect India is full of them.

Ever my dear Baron

most sincerely yr

Jos D Hooker