To Joseph Hooker   23 August 1872

Melbourne

23/8/72

 

The missing portion of Orchideae have just been found, dear Dr Hooker. I will try to get them away by the Captain of the Somersetshire.1

Please let enquiries be made for them; but I am not certain, whether they will be in time2

your

Ferd von Mueller

 

Orchideae

1
See M to J. Hooker, 12 August 1872 (in this edition as 72-08-12a). Somersetshire'cleared out' on 24 August (Argus, 26 August 1872, p. 4); it arrived off Plymouth on31 October 1872 (London Standard, 2 November 1872, p. 7). Bentham acknowledged receiving the additional parcel in G. Bentham to M, 19 November 1872.
2

Annotated in pencil in an unknown hand on the blank page opposite the opening of the letter: J. S. Attwood | [Carried] | Somersetshire | [care] Allport & Morgan | 7 Leadenhall St | E C.

Allport and Morgan were the agents handling the 'Money, Wingram and Sons' Line of Steam and Packet vessels', including Somersetshire (Captain J. S. Attwood), 'now lying in the South-West India Docks' (Times, 5 November 1872, p. 2).

Please cite as “FVM-72-08-23,” 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/72-08-23