To Joseph Hooker   29 February 1872

Melbourne

bot Garden

29/2/72

 

In reply to your letter, dear Dr Hooker, from 17/12/711 I cannot give you any information on our palms beyond what I published in the fragmenta,2 but I have a few supplemental collections and intend to work them up in the current number of the fragmenta,3 as Dr Scheffer4 has shed some more light on the proper limits of genera identical with ours or allied to them.

Mr Moore5 reports Livistona humilis at Cape Sidmouth,6 but I have seen no specimen.

I had some Cundorango7 bark since, and it is now under trial.

Always your regardful

Ferd. von Mueller.

 

I hope soon to pass through the end of my ordeal, and am just in the midst of a crisis.

 

Livistona humilis

1
J. Hooker to M, 17 December 1871.
2
Hooker had referred in his letter to M's enumeration of palms in B65.07.03, p. 49; since that date M had published no further information on palms in his Fragmenta.
3
M did not publish anything more on Palms in the Fragmenta until 1874: see B74.08.01, p. 221-2, and B74.09.02, p. 233-6.
4
Probably Scheffer (1873). The paper is dated August 1871 on its final page; M apparently received a copy before the complete volume was published.
5
Charles Moore.
6
East coast of Cape York Peninsula, Queensland.
7
See M to J. Hooker 6 September 1871, and J. Hooker to M, 1 December 1871.

Please cite as “FVM-72-02-29,” 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 26 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/72-02-29