To William Hooker   17 December 1858

Melbourne bot. & zool. gardens,

17. Dec 1858.

My dear Sir William.

Just at the eve of my departure for the S.W. hitherto untrotten part of our alps,1 I am revising the print of an article, which I read before the Institute some 8 months ago, but which has only now appeared.2

I have written to Dr Hooker by this mail more fully.3

Trusting that I may be able to bring some interesting novelties home and thus complete the examination of our alpine Botany, I promise to let you have soon a share of my harvest.

With my sincerest wishes for your health

& happiness

your humble & grateful

Ferd. Mueller

1
In M to J. Macadam, 17 December 1858, M announces that he is leaving 'this day'.
2
B59.13.01: ‘Dr. Mueller exhibited and explained some specimens of New Australian plants’, Proceedings of the meeting of the Philosophical Institute of Victoria, 26 May 1858, Transactions of the Philosophical Institute of Victoria, vol. 3, p. ix.
3
See M to J. Hooker, 15 December 1858.

Please cite as “FVM-58-12-17a,” 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/58-12-17a