From Joseph Hooker¹    3 October 1886

The Camp

Sunningdale Oct 3d /86

My dear Baron

I thank you exceedingly for the gift of your splendid volume on Myoporineae which will add a huge corner stone to the edifice you have raised to Australian Botany. It is a capital pair to the Eucalypts & I can hope now that your labors will be carried on for many years to come.

I have also to thank you for your many kind attentions to my son Brian, who seems to be getting on well, though it is now a good many weeks since I have heard from him.

I occupy Bentham's room & table at Kew, & pretty much confine my labors to the Indian Flora,² of which the last part went to you a month or two ago

I find certain Orders to be very hard & very unsatisfactory work. Especially Laurineae, Myristiceae & Piperaceae, none of which trouble you much in Australia. I am now working at Phyllanthus which requires a thorough revision. I have many new species of the Bradleia section, but not many of others.

Though working so near to the Gardens I see very little of them having no time to spare from my Herbarium work.

Dr Aitchison³ is here naming his plants of the Affghan Boundary Commission. Reichenbach has also been at Kew, at Orchids of course.

Very sincerely yr

Jos D Hooker

Bradleia

Laurineae

Myoporineae

Myristiceae

Phyllanthus

Piperaceae