To Joseph Hooker   14 June 1870

14/6/70

 

By this months mail, dear Dr Hooker, I beg to send you some beautiful photograms, taken near my office dwelling by Mr Montefiore, a Melbourne Merchant, and near Relative of Sir Moses Montefiore. He is an amateur photographer and presented me with this set. Keep half of them, please, according to your own selection, and send the rest to Dr Sonder, when you have an apt opportunity of doing so. I thought you would like to see something of the botanic Garden, as formed by me. The pictures give of course only a very few views, whereas the views from the ridge near my house a1 quite panoramic.2

The case with Museum plants pr Suffolk returned in safety. I am glad and grateful to get case after case safely back.

Prof. [M'Owan] sent me the seeds of Pentzia last year. I suppose it will be similar as a fodder plant for sheep to the numerous Compositae of the Australian Deserts.3

 

Pentzia

1
are?
2
The images have not been found at Kew. The plates were apparently lost or destroyed, see M to E. Montefiore, 13 October 1871. However, fig. 8 in Almond (1996), p. 38 fits an image taken from ‘the ridge near my house’, albeit not giving a good representation of the complete panorama (see plan accompanying B69.07.03).
3
The letter ends without valediction at the bottom of a single folio; the back of the folio is blank.

Please cite as “FVM-70-06-14a,” 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 20 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/70-06-14a