From Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker   9 July 1884

Villa Wiesbaden

38 Victoria Parade.

East Melbourne.

9/7/841

Would you kindly inform me, dear Sir Joseph, whether the Oberonia Titania (Lindley) is any where described,2 or occurs only first in print in the “gen. pl.”3

Regardfully

your

Ferd. von Mueller

I am still away from my library at Dr Buettners4 House and have not left the room for 2 months.

Oberonia Titania

The front of the MS is embossed with the monogram HB [= Hermann Büttner?] in blue, to the left of the address, which is embossed in black.

Described in Lindley (1852-9), February 1859, p. 8. See M to J. Hooker, 9 July 1884 (in this edition as 84-07-09a) and notes thereto; and also J. Hooker to M, 31 August 1884 (in this edition as 84-08-31a).

Bentham & Hooker (1862-83).

Alexander Büttner; Hermann Büttner, his brother, also lived at this address.

Please cite as “FVM-84-07-09b,” 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 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/84-07-09b