To Joseph Hooker   28 April 1867

28/4/67

 

In my letters, posted this morning, dear Dr Hooker, I omitted to mention, that should poor Harveys widow in any way be interested in the monetary proceeds of the phycologia, let then, pray, at once the sum I am still charged be paid in full, otherwise please use your own discretion.1 I ought perhaps to be more liberal, but really after 20 years stay in Australia I am finally almost worse off than when I came & must thus husband my slender resources, otherwise I shall never be able to establish a domestic home.

I send you some paper samples. Should you have received them already from Government direct, pray give these small bits to some other phytologic Museum.2

Your

Ferd Mueller

 

I have commenced a tabellar3 statistic of all plants of Australia, in which medicinal, technological, geographical &c indications are given. I shall complete it as a byework.4

Could not Prof Balfour send you a small off-shoot of Mesembryanthemum tegens. It reached Edinburgh quite safely.5 Should "Enhydra" not be changed to Meyera or Sobreyra as it is also a zoologic name!6

 

Enhydra

Mesembryanthemum tegens

Meyera

Sobreyra

1
The reference is to the sale of copies of Harvey (1858-63) sent to M; see M to J. Hooker, 25 October 1866.
2
Fifteen samples of paper were entered in the Museum entry book Kew, 1861-79, p. 181, on 1 July 1867.
3
tabular?
4
M appears never to have published the tabulation.
5
See M to J. Balfour, 27 December 1866.
6
One of four genera of the weasel family (Mustelidae). Enhydra lutris is the sea otter.

Please cite as “FVM-67-04-28,” 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/67-04-28