19/5/71
It must be quite elevating to you, dear Dr Hooker, to see a Hooker nepos arise to continue the glory of your & your fathers name. How promising, at so early an age. What would I give could I say the same! I lost the best years of my life here in struggling against impossibilities and almost unsurmountable obstacles.
I see your sons able remarks now from time to time in "Nature".1
Prof Bolander says Pinus Sinclarii is the oldest name for Pinus radiata (P. insignis). Is this so? According to Pritzel I should think not.2
Always your regardful
Ferd. von Mueller
Pinus insignis
Pinus radiata
Pinus Sinclarii
M appears to have misinterpreted a note addressed from Kew by 'F. H. Hooker' on 'Chip hats' in Nature, 17 November 1870, p. 47; the author is not identified as 'Hooker (Mrs F. H.)' [i.e. Joseph Hooker's wife Frances Harriett, née Henslow] until the index to the complete volume that closed on 27 April 1871 was issued.
Pinus sinclairii? See J. Hooker to M, 4 August 1871 (in this edition as 71-08-04a). Bolander (1870-71), p. 57, discusses the synonymy. Pritzel (1851) lists 1841 as the date of the publication by W. Hooker and Arnott in which P. sinclairii was named (i.e. W. Hooker & Arnott (1841), p. 392, a copy of which M did not own in 1865 or list in 1868 (B65.05.01, B69.07.03)). IPNI give February to March 1840 for the publication of part 9, which includes this species. D. Don (1837), p. 442, in a paper read in 1835, named P. radiata, and Douglas as the author of P. insignis was first published in Loudon (1838), vol. 4, p. 2263. In Loudon (1844), the edition that M owned, the entry is in vol. 4, p. 2265.
MS annotation by Hooker: 'Ansd [Aug] 4'. See J. Hooker to M, 4 August 1871 (in this edition as 71-08-04a).
Please cite as “FVM-71-05-19c,” 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