To William Hooker   March 1857

 

[...]1

In conclusion to this happy communication I thank you, Sir William, most heartily for your kind promise to inform me through your assistant of any incorrectness in my manuscript or rather in the names of the plants. Could I get by July or August the information on Thalamiflorae, nothing would stand in the way of issuing that part of my work this year. It will besides be the time when the Council is adjourned, and this is the only time in which I can bring the work through the Gov. Press. A Mr Bates2 took about a fourthnight ago [a]3 few books home for you. — the enclosed communication to As. Gray4 you would perhaps obliging[ly] forward with other things. I was not sure whether the address is correct and did not like to loose an other letter.

Mr Benthams paper on Acacia5 has been to me the source of much grief. Sonder had agreed always to correct the manuscript names be fore publication and now even Acacia Melanoxyl. should have been misunderstood by myself! Such mistakes could have only arisen from misplacing the labels.6

Believe me, Sir William,

to be your most obliged

and devoted servant

Ferd. Mueller.

 

Acacia Melanoxylon

Thalamiflorae

An unknown amount of MS missing.
See footnotes M to W. Hooker, 19 January 1857.
editorial addition.
The only known letter from M to Asa Gray written early in 1857 is dated 24 January 1857.
Bentham (1853).
See postscript of M to W. Hooker, 11 January 1857; Lucas (1995), pp. 209–210.

Please cite as “FVM-57-03-00a,” in Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller, edited by R.W. Home, Thomas A. Darragh, A.M. Lucas, Sara Maroske, D.M. Sinkora, J.H. Voigt and Monika Wells accessed on 29 March 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/57-03-00a