From Joseph Hooker1    17 February 1865

Dear Dr Mueller

By this mail there goes out to you one box seeds of trees & shrubs, all fresh & this years gathering, one box cuttings &c as per list enclosed.2 Our Curator3 has paid every attention to the packing & I hope they will go all right

Very many thanks for your last with the information for Mr Lubbock about the natives, for wh. he is exceedingly obliged.4

I made a list of the Chatham Isld mosses the other day & want to send a copy to you but have mislaid it somehow —there was nothing in the least rare or curious about them.

A large box is making ready for you & will go early next month.

We are all well, my father better than I have known him to be for many years, though within 4 months of 80.

Most ty yr

J D Hooker

 

Kew Feby 17/65

1
MS annotation by M: 'P. & O. s. N. 1. £5.8.4d | delayed by the Madras — Cacti, Aroideae, Papyrus. | 1865'.
2
List not found.
3
` John Smith (1821-88), who had recently succeeded another John Smith (1798-1888) as Curator at Kew. See J. Hooker to M, 2 December 1864.
4
See questions in J. Hooker to M, 19 September 1864. The letter containing M's answers has not been found. Neither Lubbock (1868) nor Lubbock (1870) refers to the topics on which information was sought.

Please cite as “FVM-65-02-17,” 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 26 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/65-02-17