To Joseph Hooker   12 June 1868

Melbourne Botanic Garden

12/6/68

 

By the Lincolnshire,dear Dr Hooker, you will receive Box 42, containing Monochlamydeae according to the byefollowing Index.1 Pray inform Mr Bentham, that the rest of the Laurineae, the Amarantaceae & Salsolaceae will be shipped within the next weeks by the first klipper, perhaps also the Polygoneae, unless I am hindered by unforseen interruptions. I intend then to send the Coniferae, Cycadeae & Casuarinae first, keeping the Proteaceae tilthe last, but shall be guided by Mr Bentham's wishes.2 As yet I have no information of the arrival of Box 36 pr True Britain,3 of 37 pr. Dover Castle, of 38 pr Norfolk and of 39 & 40 pr Great Britain.4 By the Essex last month I sent a large box (41) chiefly with Euphorbiaceae.

With regardful salutation

Ferd von Mueller

 

The Thymeleae will fill also a large box.

 

Amarantaceae

Casuarinae

Coniferae

Cycadeae

Euphorbiaceae

Laurineae

Monochlamydeae

Proteaceae

Thymeleae

1
Index not found.
2
The specimens were not sent in the order listed. Box 43, sent on 7 July 1868, contained Coniferae, Cycadeae and Casuarinae. The main collections of Amarantaceae and Salsolaceae were not sent until Boxes 49 and 50, after the Proteaceae had been sent (RB MSS M44, Notebook recording despatch of plants for Bentham for Flora australiensis, Library, RBG Melbourne).
3
True Briton? RB MSS M44, Notebook recording despatch of plants for Bentham for Flora australiensis , Library, RBG Melbourne, lists case 36 as sent 23 January 1868 by 'True Britain', i.e., True Briton, which was cleared out of Hobson's Bay on 27 January 1868 ( Argus , 28 January 1868, p. 4). Cases 39 and 40 were sent per ‘Great Britain, 14 March’, the date the vessel is reported to have cleared out ( Argus , 16 March 1868, p. 4). Dover Castle cleared out on 14 February 1868 and Norfolk on 29 February 1868 ( Argus , 15 February 1868, p. 4; 2 March 1868. p. 4).
4
See G. Bentham to M, 18 June 1868 (in this edition as 68-06-18c). The entries for each of these consignments in M’s notebook are marked ‘arrived, teleg. July mail’; telegram not found.

Please cite as “FVM-68-06-12a,” 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 28 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/68-06-12a