June 10 /81.
Dear Von Mueller
I enclose Oliver's note1 about the Acacia, our Brunonian specimens of deltoidea are miserable. We are now overhauling a whole heap of Brown's unarranged plants to complete our set, & are putting aside the first set of duplicates for you. Brown's collections were enormous, it is marvellous what he did in that little ship! — incredible. — After the Brit. Mus. had sent us the set intended for us by Bennett, it sent a further load, & it is this latter we are now sorting & selecting from previous to distribution.2
The Cycad will be most acceptable to Dyer3 — who is perfecting our Cycad Herbm & living collection indefatigably. We should be thankful for flat-dried fronds, old & young, of any Cycads & especially of this new one. Dyer is forming a Herbarium collection on large paper to which contributions will be most acceptable — the size is 2 x 1¾ ft.
Our collection of drawings is also very complete, & of the photographs also
Very sincerely yr
Jos D Hooker
Acacia deltoidea
Daniel Oliver's note not found. See M's request in M to J. Hooker, 17 April 1881.
M acknowledged Hooker's news about the specimens collected by Robert Brown (1773-1858) in M to J. Hooker, 29 July 1881, and then acknowledged receipt of five cases of Brown's plants in M to J. Hooker, 22 May 1882 (in this edition as 82-05-22a) and M to J. Hooker, 29 May 1882. 'Bennett' is J. J. Bennett.
W. Thiselton-Dyer. A specimen of Macrozamia moorei was sent to Kew in April or May 1881; see M to W. Thiselton-Dyer, 28 May 1881.
MS embossed with crest of Royal Gardens Kew.
Please cite as “FVM-81-06-10,” 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