25/10/66
I owe you, dear Dr Hooker, my cordial gratulation to the well merited tribute, rendered to you by the two great & venerable centres of learning of Britain.2 These acknowledgements of the immense services you have performed in the cause of science ought long before this have been yours.
The Exhibition duties3 have prevented me to send you final copies of a new number of Fragmenta of which nearly all the proof is revised. It contains a new Cinnamomum4 & other very interesting plants.
My determinations of tar, acetic acid & woodspirits of [10] kinds of our gregariously distributed woods have turned out satisfactorely as to percentage.5 Maba, Diospyros and Cargillia seem to me only sections of one very natural genus. The coloring of Lyperanthus in your flora Tasmanica6 is not good. The enclosed sketch is very natural.7 The leaf is whitish underneath. The fringes of the labellum are white.
The box pr Sussex has arrived. Very many thanks for the Orchids, the Manihot & the Crocus autumnalis you so kindly secured & for the arrival of which I am anxiously looking forward. Could not poisoned paper be manufactured for Herbaria??—
Your attached
Ferd. Mueller
When will we have a flora of Europe.
The returned Rubiaceae & Loranthaceae seem all in good order
Cargillia
Cinnamomum
Crocus autumnalis
Diospyros
Loranthaceae
Lyperanthus
Maba
Manihot
Rubiaceae
Please cite as “FVM-66-10-25c,” 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/66-10-25c