bot Garden
24/10/65.
Dear Mr Bentham.
The death of our adored friend Sir Will Hooker has thrown me into the deepest sadness.1 The venerable man evinced always such unbounded almost paternal kindness towards me, that til the end of my days his memory must remain holy to me.
I am not in the spirit to write on scientific subjects to you by this mail. The few notes enclosed were written before the announcement of Sir Williams death.2
I confine myself now then to the remark of my having sent a case of Compositae per "Kent" to Kew.
With veneration
your
Ferd. Mueller
George Bentham Esq
FRS., PrLS.
Compositae
Please cite as “FVM-65-10-24a,” 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