To Joseph Hooker   10 August 1870

10/8/70

 

I just received the copy of your excellent students flora, dear Dr Hooker.1 I like the plan of the work much. It comes very much in detail near Kochs Taschenbuch der deutsche Flora2 and revived my reminiscenses of field searches 30 years ago with great vivacity.

Prof Olivers last edition of the Kew Guide3 pleases me also, but I missed (perhaps overlooked?) measurements of the gigantic Eucalypts and a few other striking notes, such as [our] Todea.4 Perhaps the Professor never had my Exhibition reports5

 

Eucalyptus

Todea

 
1
Hooker (1870).
2
Koch (1844).
3
Oliver (1870).
4
Oliver quotes, on pp. 94-5, part of B67.13.02 concerning the size of Eucalyptus; and on p. 96 quotes M on the tree fern Dicksonia antarctica. No special mention is made of Todea. For an analysis of M’s claims for tall trees, see Mace (1996).
5
The text ends without valediction near the bottom of the back page of the folio.

Please cite as “FVM-70-08-10a,” 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 19 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/70-08-10a