From Joseph Hooker   31 December 1884

Dec 31 /84

Dear Baron von Mueller

I send you the best scraps we can afford of the Myoporum & Eremophila.1 There are but 3 flowers on the latter & one was dissected.

Baker says that your Hymenophyllum Reidii 2 is = H. javanicum, Spr3

With all the best wishes of the season

Most sincerely yr

J D Hooker.

 

P.S. I do not know what is doing about a Memorial to Bentham.4 Masters5 talked of a copy of the Linn. Soc. Portrait for Kew. In which case it would not be etiquette that the Kew Staff joined — we being the recipients as we were the dispensers of his benefits.

There are still a few copies of Gen. Plant6 at Herbm at £6.15.4 Cash. Unfortunately Part i is almost out of print & I fear I shall have to reprint it to complete the remaining copies of other parts.

 

Myoporum

Eremophila

Hymenophyllum Reidii

Hymenophyllum javanicum

1
See M to J. Hooker, 31 October 1884, in which M asked Hooker if Kew could spare him leaf, flower and fruit of Myoporum brevipes and Eremophila leucophylla.
2
Presumably M’s herbarium name on the specimen sent to Kew.
3
Identified in an undated memorandum [by D. Oliver?], Kew Correspondence, Australia, Mueller. 1882-1890. f. 125: ‘F. v. Mueller’s Hymenophyllum Reidii, [FM] vide JGB = H. javanicum [Spng]’
4
See M to J. Hooker, 6 November 1884.
5
Maxwell Masters.
6
Bentham & Hooker (1862–83).

Please cite as “FVM-84-12-31b,” 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 19 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/84-12-31b