To Joseph Hooker1    21 April 1867

Easterday2 673

 

Your wishes, dear Dr Hooker, shall be attended to.4 An other case dry plants shall follow the Wellesley soon, perhaps already next week by the True Britain.5 Do you care for weapons for Kew Museum, if the wood is correctly ascertained? We have now Manihot secured from India & New Caledonia for Australia. The plant seems hardy.

I have by this months mail the second fascicle of your lamented fathers filices.6 Is it not a pity that the observations are not brought up to date. Thus my fragmenta are entirely disregarded by Mr Baker.7 I have now 13 well marked Menispermeae, two of which are new & shall be described in the next number of the fragmenta8

Your attached

Ferd Mueller

 

1/4/679

 

Manihot

Menispermeae

 
1
Annotated: Answd [June] 23rd [letter not found].
2
In 1867, Easter fell on 21 April.
3
Annotated below date by J. Hooker: ‘1 April’.
4
The letter expressing Hooker's wishes has not been identified.
5
Wellesley sailed on 1 April 1867. True Britoncleared out of Hobson's Bay on 4 May (Argus 6 May 1867, p. 4), but the next box of dried plants for Bentham was not sent until 3 August 1867 (RB MSS M44, M notebook recording despatch of plants for Bentham for Flora australiensis, Library, RBG Melbourne).
6
Hooker & Baker (1868).
7
For example, M's notes on Alsophila australis (B65.07.03, p. 52) and descriptions of Asplenium simplicifrons (B65.10.04, p. 74) were not mentioned by Baker.
8
The next species of Menispermeae to be described by M was not published until 1875 (Carronia multisepalea, B75.12.01, p. 171), although some new combinations were made earlier that year (B75.07.01, pp. 82-4).
9
MS annotation by M: '1/4/67'. This was date Wellesley sailed from Melbourne.

Please cite as “FVM-67-04-21f,” 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/67-04-21f