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From Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker   24 Aug 1861

24/8/61.

Dear Dr Hooker

Many many thanks for the noble collection of dried Indian plants, with which you enriched our Herbarium. They came in my book case, but half the books were destroyed by Saltwater, but the plants miraculously escaped!

I have pr Lincolnshire sent Azolla to Kew. Seringea & Kerandrenia may after all be kept distinct. My Seringeas are then Kerandrenias.

Accept my best congratulation to the V.P. of the L.S. and pray express to Mr Bentham my congratulation to his new high position.1 The copy of Prof Harveys Cape flora2 arrived only within the last days. I am exceedingly obliged to him. His brother in law I see often.3

I have sent some seeds to Kew by my countryman, Dr Guenther, the Surgeon of the "Anglesey" recently gone out.

I am glad Mr Bentham arrives at the same conclusion as myself respecting Macarthuria, upon which you find remarks by me nearly two years ago in the Fragmenta, referring it to Mollugineae4

Your truly

attached

Ferd Mueller

Azolla

Kerandrenia

Macarthuria

Mollugineae

Seringea

1

Bentham was elected President of the Linnean Society on 24 May 1861. J. Hooker was Vice-President.

2

i.e. the first volume of Harvey & Sonder (1859-65).

3

See M to W. Hooker, 24 August 1861 (in this edition as 61-08-24a), n. 11.

4

B60.02.02, p. 11; Bentham (1863-78) vol. 3, pp. 331-2.

Please cite as “FVM-61-08-24c,” 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 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/61-08-24c