Dec 13 /76.
My dear Mueller
Thank you much for your very kind letter of congratulation of 23/9/76.2
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.3
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"4 since midsummer. I hope however to utilize the Xmas holidays for this purpose.
The Correa Laurenciana 5 with scarlet flowers will be indeed an acquisition; it has not yet arrived6
Lord Stair grows Eucalyptus amygdalina in Wigten shire7 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
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 28 March 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/76-12-13