To William Hooker   26 June 1863

26/6/63

Dear Sir William

By the "Roxburgh Castle", which ship conveys this letter I forwarded (as mentioned by overland mail)1 a case with Acacia for President2 Bentham to you. The case contains also some parcels of dry plants from Mr Whan to Prof Dickie,3 which I would be thankful if delivered to the order of the latter Gentleman. They comprise nothing that is not already well represented in your herbarium, as I have persuaded myself [when] naming the plants.

Ever your

Ferd. Mueller

 

Acacia

1
M to W. Hooker, 16 June 1863; see also M to G. Bentham, 24 June 1863, and RB MSS M44, Notebook recording despatch of plants for Bentham for Flora australiensis, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne.
2
Bentham was president of the Linnean Society of London.
3
William Taylor Whan, George Dickie.

Please cite as “FVM-63-06-26b,” 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/63-06-26b