To William Hooker1    11 April 1857

Sydney bot. Garden 12 April 572

My dear Sir William

The supplementary mail for Europe is just closing. Yesterday I forwarded to you a long letter containing I think some bot. information not without value to you.3 I transmitted also diagn of Dennisonia, Barklya & Laboucheria4 with specimens. Please let me know by a few lines the reciept of the letter, so that if its contents do not reach you I may make up for it again.

I have Mr Gregorys offic. acknowledgement in hand, stating that I bestowed all possible care on packing the plants.5 The loss has made me quite ill, and I am afraid I do not possess sufficient Newtonian philosophy to get easily over it. How a number of people who had on board of the vessel actually nothing to do, but to watch for the safety of the property of the Government, were unable (by the absence of damage to the vessel) to keep the few important things of the expedition dry, is quite beyond my comprehension.

Ever your most attached

servant

Ferd Mueller.

 

I have a new genus of Pontederiaceae! The order is I believe unkown from Australia. It has regular [flowers].6

 

Barklya

Dennisonia

Laboucheria

Pontederiaceae

 
1
MS address: 'Sir William Jackson Hooker, K.H., D.C.L., F.H.S., V.P.L.S. &c &c &c, Director of the Royal Gardens of Kew near London.'
2
The MS of this letter is postmarked Sydney, 11 April 1857.
3
See M to W. Hooker, 6 April 1857.
4
M erected Dennisonia (D. ternifolia), Barklya (B. syringifolia)and Laboucheria (L. chlorostachya) (B59.02.02, pp. 158-9), in honour respectively of the Governors of Vic and NSW and the Secretary of State for the Colonies, London.
5
See A. Gregory to M, 8 April 1857.
6
Presumably Limnostachys (L. cyanea) (B58.03.01, p. 24).

Please cite as “FVM-57-04-11,” 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 27 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/57-04-11