To Joseph Hooker   6 May 1880

6/5/80¹

It is very kind of you, dear Sir Joseph, to send me the pencil-sketches of the Eucalypts.² Thus a vacuum in my material for the "Atlas"³ is filled up.

Will you kindly be one of the sponsors of Mr P. H. MacGillivray for the Fellowship of the L.S? I have no forms of application left, but suppose, that you could put my name down on my behalf, these few lines bearing it out if formally necessary.⁴ Many other Linneans must know Mr M'Gillivray, to sign the application-paper also. He is a M.R.C.S., is since 20 years in active medical practice in Victoria, has turned out an expert Surgeon, as he had charge of the Sandhurst⁵ Hospital (in Victoria) for many years. What gives him claims for Linnean recognition are his writings on polyzoa ⁶

With Regardful remembrance

Ferd. von Mueller.

I will send you successively a few more copies of the index of L. sp. pl. ed. I;⁷ as you may have friends like Mr Ball &c, who would like to possess it as something handy for quick reference

Of course, it will be known to you, that Mr M'Gillivray is the brother of the navigating Naturalist⁸ & son of Prof M'Gillivray, who wrote a [condensed] work on Baron Humboldts volumes.⁹ Mr M'Gillivray is in very lucrative practice.

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