8/1/95
You might like dear Dr Dyer, to put this sample of Wild-Rice into your Museum among the Australian Exhibits.1 I was the first to show its existence in Australia in 1855 & 1856 (see Hooker’s Journal),2 as I found it then around pools far in the interior of Arnhem's Land,3 but saw it nowhere near the coast.
Had just a New years Greeting from Mrs Brian Hooker,4 who — I now learn — has taken up her abode at King George's Sound,5 where the clime is remarkably pleasant.
With friendship
your
Ferd von Mueller
The sample of the grain of Oryza sativa is in the Economic Botany collection at Kew, catalogue number 32207; see Kew Inwards book, entry number 17/1895.
B56.11.01, p. 329.
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Date stamped: Royal Gardens Kew 12. FEB. 95.; annotated in red ink by W. Hemsley: Ackd. 13.2.95 (letter not found); and in black ink by [?John Master Hillier]: Thanks herewith 17/1895 JM[H]; 13.2.95'.
Please cite as “FVM-95-01-08a,” 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