March 12 /83.
My dear Baron
I lose no time in acknowledging the receipt of your despatches that have this morning come to hand.
1. I will do as you wish about Mr Tate's Certificate1
2. We will do our best with the Begonia?2 the tufts of hairs are not characteristic of Begoniaceae. I fear it is monstrous.
3. The Chiloglottis tubers arrived quite dead; the box smashed & sand rolling out.3
Pray excuse [mean] length of letter but am just now excessively busy.
Very sincerely yr
Jos. D. Hooker.
Begonia
Begoniaceae
Chiloglottis
The certificate nominating Tate for election to the Royal Society of London (in this edition as 83-00-00k); see M to R. Tate, 20 January 1883.
See M to J. Hooker, 29 January 1883 (in this edition as 83-01-29a).
See M to [W. Thiselton-Dyer], 1883 (in this edition as 83-00-00g).
MS embossed with the crest of Royal Gardens Kew.
Please cite as “FVM-83-03-12,” 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