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RBG Kew Directors' correspondence, vol. 139, f. 64 M72.03.15
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John Booth to Joseph Hooker, 1872-03-15 [M72.03.15]. 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/M72-03-15-final.odt>, accessed May 10, 2026
Flottbeck
15th March 1872
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Near Hamburg.
Dear Sir,
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The early part of the letter discusses plants that Hooker may want and ones Booth
would like to receive.
In the meantime the 'Baron' honoured me with a very nice letter
(half german & half English) delighted that I am in the possession of the
which I shall have photographed before long so that you may see what a capital thing
it is, with the 100 and more fronds. Is it not wonderful that as soon as the sun shines upon this mass it gives a most
disagreeable smell, like a corpse. To what is this owing? The Baron sends me the first
page of his work 'Fragmenta phytographiae Australiae' contulit liber Baro Ferd. de
&c, then following about 30 lines with all the stars and memberships of this and the
other world.
But he is anxious to enter into business with me and will do anything.
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Volume 7, 1869 -71, has 30 lines listing M's memberships and honours on the title
page.
From official quarters I have now got a list of things they want for which he gets
very likely 'Aquila rubra'
which he has not.
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The Prussian Orden des Roten Adler (Order of the Red Eagle). Membership of the order,
as a Knight, 3rd class, was conferred on 8 March 1876; see Wilhelm I, King of Prussia,
to M, 8 March 1876.
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The remainder of the letter discusses the severe winter and its effects.
My dear Dr Hooker
very sincerely your
John Booth