To Joseph Hooker   27 January 1885

27./1./85.

 

About three years ago, dear Sir Joseph, I sent you a copy of the print of my adress, delivered in opening the section for Agriculture, Horticulture and Pastoral pursuits in the Melbourne Social Science Congress of 1880.1 The whole edition of the volume, of which this discourse formed part, was destroyed before issueby the fire in our Gov. Printing Office here,2 and the volume has never appeared again. There is some chance for the reissue of this print now; so if you will let me have the Kew-copy, if even in loan only, I shall be much obliged.3

Regardfully

Your

Ferd. von Mueller.

 

Could you kindly spare an other copy of the Kew-report which contains the palm-list? I never got a copy of the last Guide to Kew-Garden and to Kew-Museum4

Plectranthus foetidus5 has been fully referred to in the IX & XI vol. of the fragmenta, also noted in the "Census"6

Could a specimen of Myoporum brevipesbe spared at Kew.7 I find none in the Collections here. It would be necessary to have an original specimen for my Monography; 80 plates to be prepared, all drawn already.8

Might not Fropiera9 be included in Hypericinae?10

 

Fropiera

Hypericinae

Myoporum brevipes

Plectranthus foetidus

 
1
B80.13.09. The copy at RBG Kew, in F Mueller opuscula, miscellaneous 1878–89, is inscribed on the first page by M: From the first Vice-President of the Rural Section of the Social Science Congress; read Melbourne, Nov. 1880.
2
See Argus, 25 May 1882, p. 9.
3

MS annotation by Thiselton-Dyer: Prof. O. Have you got this address | Dupl. copy sent 8.4.85.

The complete volume does not seem to have been reprinted.

4

MS annotation by Thiselton-Dyer:Sent 18/3/85.

For M’s thanks see M to W. Thiselton-Dyer, 28 April 1885 (in this edition as 85-04-28a). The guide-books M wanted are presumably Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (1884) and Oliver (1875), which were the most recently published guides. Palms were listed in Hooker (1884a).

The remainder of the text given here is bound as f. 138. Although f. 137 is not filled, it seems likely that the two sheets were sent and replied to together, since M to W. Thiselton-Dyer, 28 April 1885 comments on the contents of the annotations on each folio. (However, the specimen of Myoporum being acknowledged in one of these comments may have been sent in response to the request in M to J. Hooker, 31 October 1884.)

5
Plectranthus underlined in blue pencil.
6
B75.11.02, p. 161; B81.13.02, p. 135; both references are in B82.13.16, p. 100.
7
There is a vertical blue pencil line in the central margin against this sentence.
8

The species is illustrated in B86.13.21, plate 63.

MS annotations by Hooker : Prof O; by D. Oliver We have but 2 bits, a corner of a sheet. & I could not spare more than I have detached; and by [W. Thiselton-Dyer]: And March 20/85. Letter not found.

9
Fropiera underlined in blue pencil.
10

MS annotation by D. Oliver: Vide Journ Linn. Soc. V. p.1. tab.1 — address of Sir Joseph’s! — A very bad Hypericinae I shd. say. [Reference is to J. Hooker (1861)] Definite (diplost.) stamens slightl eperigynous — Sessile stigma — & probably cor.-aestivation are against this affinity.

See also M to J. Hooker, 3 May 1885.

Please cite as “FVM-85-01-27,” 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 27 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/85-01-27