To William Thiselton-Dyer1    8 January 1895

8/1/95

 

You might like dear Dr Dyer, to put this sample of Wild-Rice into your Museum among the Australian Exhibits.2 I was the first to show its existence in Australia in 1855 & 1856 (see Hooker’s Journal),3 as I found it then around pools far in the interior of Arnhem's Land,4 but saw it nowhere near the coast.

Had just a New years Greeting from Mrs Brian Hooker,5 who — I now learn — has taken up her abode at King George's Sound,6 where the clime is remarkably pleasant.

With friendship

your

Ferd von Mueller

1
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'.
2
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.
3
B56.11.01, p. 329.
4
NT.
5
Letter not found.
6
WA.

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 20 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/95-01-08a