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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
[Joseph Hooker]
Date:
1881
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller 1871-81, f. 313
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Letter of introduction for V. O. Kovalevsky.
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JDH sends birthday wishes to Brian Houghton Hodgson, who is his only remaining 'Indian Chum' now that Colvile is dead. JDH reports on the illnesses of [Sir Wiliam Turner] Thiselton-Dyer. JDH & his wife Hyacinth plan to go away with the Grays at the end of Feb. Gives his opinion of his father in law, [Reverend William Samuel] Symonds' novel: MALVERN CHASE, & also of [John Keat's] Endymion.
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JDH writes that he is sending Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer [WTTD] the list of herbarium visitors for the RBG Kew annual report, he was not sure whether to include [George] Bentham's name. He notes that the list shows a 'wonderful amount of botanical query & activity'. JDH is now preparing the list of additions to the herbarium, including the extensive list of [Georg Wilhelm Heinrich] Schimper & General William Munro's donated herbaria. JDH discusses the benefits of WTTD going to Court, both for him personally & for the office of Assistant Director of RBG Kew. JDH mentions that he likes the hotel Romain, where he is staying in Paris. He & his party plan to dine at Lavalier's & Capones[?] in Paris before travelling south.
JDH is sending Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer [WTTD] the prepared list of donations to the RBG Kew herbarium, for the annual Kew Report, which will need revising by WTTD & [Daniel] Oliver. They may also wish to edit Hooker's eulogy to [General William] Munro. JDH cannot work up the list of Kew's publications without references so the Report will be delayed beyond the end of Mar this year. JDH & [Asa] Gray have visited [Joseph] Decaisne who is convinced that a student of his can define the characters of the natural orders based on hairs[?], & Decaisne is classifying species of Clematis according to the bristles on the stem & testa, which Baillon[?] will undoubtedly debunk. They visited the Jardin des plantes where JDH observed about 18 immature species of Madagascar palms. Also met: [Marie Maxim] Cornu, [Philippe Édouard Léon] van Tieghem, [Pierre Étienne Simon] Duchartre & [Gaspard Adolphe] Chatin. They have dined at Lavalier's & been to St Denis. Next they go to Chambery, Turin, Genoa, Pise [Pisa], Rome & Naples.
JDH reports that he has arrived in Rome. En route the party stopped in Paris & dined with Lavalie[?] & Copen[?], the latter may leave his herbarium to RBG Kew. They then travelled through Chambery & Turin, where they saw the Champollion Collection of Egyptian Antiquities but JDH forgot to call on Giovanni Arcangeli who is a professor there. JDH admired the view of the Alps towards Monte Viso from an 'Alpine club' house at Turin. After Turin they went to Genoa & tried unsuccessfully to call on the Marquis Giacomo Doria. They also saw the Doria Natural History Museum with a splendid collection of animals from the Malay Islands & called on Federico Delpino. JDH revisited the palaces with the Van Dyke paintings he saw in 1874. He calls the Genoa botanic garden 'small & miserable'. From Genoa they took the train to Pisa where they met up with Betsy White as was. JDH describes the Duomo they visited in Pisa. He also describes the scenery en route from Pisa to Rome. They will next go to Castellammare & stay at the Hotel Quisisana in Naples before returning to Rome. They have briefly seen Miss May Symonds & her brother. JDH notes how sparsely populated, though cultivated, the plains of Italy are. He has seen a few wild flowers: anemones & violets. Curiously the bark of almost all the trees south of the Alps is very white: Planes, Poplars, Mulberries & Elms.
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Wants plants with two sets of anthers of different colours. Fritz Müller letter [13041a] has made him wish to renew experiments and observations carried out 20 years ago.