To Joseph Hooker1    22 December 1864

22/12/64.

Dear Dr Hooker.

The copy of your manual of New Zealand plants2 you presented to me arrived yesterday, & also the admirable dissecting instruments,3 for both of which contributions I owe you my best thanks. I shall scarcely have time to point out any deficiencies at this moment, being overwhelmed with extraduties, but it appears on a glance I had on this fine publication that Senecio Traversii published by me, in the Edinb. bot. Soc. journal4 is omitted, likewise one of Graham's Lobeliae noted by D.C. (L. rugulosa)

I have written to Mr Bentham, soliciting Mr Will. Woolls of Paramatta election into the Linnean Society as an ordinary member. Though not a systematic author this Gentleman would prove a worthy member, being well deserving of admission into the Linnean rank by his zealous enquiry into the veg. of N.S. Wales, as the material in my herbarium sufficiently manifests. Mr Woolls lost his only two children, accomplished young ladies within the last two or three years, and I anticipate that phytologic studies will remain amongst the few charms of the autumn of his life. Mr Kippist is also asked to support Mr Woolls election5

with friendly regards to you & your father

I continue to be your

Ferd Mueller.

 
 

Lobelia rugulosa

Senecio Traversii

1
MS annotation by Hooker: 'France [Benepracts] | Germy DeCandolle | England Lindley —Endlicher | S[candinav] Fries'.
2
J. Hooker (1864) pt 1.
3
See M to J. Hooker, 25 June 1864.
4
B63.13.02, p. 154.
5
See M to G. Bentham, 21 April 1865. William Woolls was elected FLS on 4 May 1865 with the support of M, Bentham, J. J. Bennett, J. Hooker and G. Macleay.

Please cite as “FVM-64-12-22,” 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 30 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/64-12-22