To William Hooker   15 May 1858

Melbourne bot Garden,

15. May 1858.

My dear Sir William

Pardon me for not sending any new specimens of late. I intended to have sent a set of mosses from Mount Juliett,1 but want of time prevented me from carrying my wish out, but they will come by the "Avon" which is to sail in about 3 weeks. I have however at least through a friend Mr Hick, forwarded the last vol. of our transactions, which just left the press. Having got lately some additions made to my house, I can keep the duplicate specimens in better order — and will have a board or shelve for yours separately, and the same for the L.S.2 and for Asa Gray and Sonder

I trust Mr Duncan reached Kew in safety, & that my plants gave satisfaction.3 We have just living plants obtained from the Grampians, so that I hope my next Ward. Case will bring the lovely Calectasia intermedia, the singular Bauera? sessiliflora, Asterolasia &c.

Is it not possible to gain your or Dr Hookers or Mr Benthams sanction to the Genus Barklya & also Denisonia?4

I had not a single English letter by last mail, a circumstance which did not happen, since my North-Australian journey.

I shall shortly furnish a paper on the Australian Eriocauleae of my collection.5

Believe me,

Sir William, to be

Your very humble &

attached

Ferd. Mueller.

 

Asterolasia

Barklya

Bauera sessiliflora

Calectasia intermedia

Denisonia

Eriocauleae

1
M had visited Mt Juliet, Vic, between 22 and 26 April 1858.
2
Linnean Society of London.
3
See M to W. Hooker, 9 January 1858 and 15 February 1858.
4
B59.02.02; See also M to G. Bentham, 15 June 1858, where the same plea is made.
5
B59.02.03, pp 91 -96.

Please cite as “FVM-58-05-15b,” 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 28 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/58-05-15b