Dec 13 /76.
My dear Mueller
Thank you much for your very kind letter of congratulation of 23/9/76.1
I am indeed pleased to hear that J. S. Mills Herbarium has been so acceptable. I have forwarded your letter to Miss Helen Taylor who has just been elected a member of one of the Metropolitan School-boards.2
I have no botanical news to give, my time is so absorbed with the official work of Kew & the Royal Society that I have not done any-thing to the "Genera"3 since midsummer. I hope however to utilize the Xmas holidays for this purpose.
The Correa Laurenciana4 with scarlet flowers will be indeed an acquisition; it has not yet arrived5
Lord Stair grows Eucalyptus amygdalina in Wigten shire6 in the open air, & has asked me to get him some fresh seeds. Can you help me? if so I should be very much obliged.
Ever [sincerely yr]
Jos D Hooker
Correa Laurenciana
Eucalyptus amygdalina
M had congratulated Hooker on his marriage to Hyacinth, second wife and widow of the naturalist Sir William Jardine, Bart.
See M to H. Taylor, 23 September 1876 (in this edition as 76-09-23d).
Bentham & Hooker (1862–83).
C. lawrenciana?
See M to J. Hooker, 4 October 1876.
i.e. Wigtownshire. MS annotation by M: 'S. W. Scotland'.
MS embossed with crest of Royal Gardens Kew.
Please cite as “FVM-76-12-13,” 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