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M64.00.00

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Joseph Hooker to Julius Haast, 1864 [M64.00.00]. 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/mentions/selected/M64-00-00-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

1
Letter not found. For the extract given here, see H. F. von Haast (1948), p. 250.
I do hope that Mueller will not publish Travers's Chatham Island Plants.
2
M did publish them; see B64.10.02.
He is so reckless and careless — he is an excellent, most assiduous, marvellous man, but craves to have F. Muell, after every name, and has loaded the Australian flora with endless synonyms, examining in haste, describing with the utmost carelessness, and causing no end of trouble to his unlucky brother botanists. I tell him plainly he is ruining his reputation, but nothing will stop him. He has made chaos of Australian botany.