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RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, f. 267. 67.04.28

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Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1867-04-28. R.W. Home, Thomas A. Darragh, A.M. Lucas, Sara Maroske, D.M. Sinkora, J.H. Voigt and Monika Wells (eds), Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller, <https://vmcp.rbg.vic.gov.au/id/67-04-28>, accessed April 20, 2025

28/4/67
In my letters, posted this morning, dear Dr Hooker, I omitted to mention, that should poor Harveys widow in any way be interested in the monetary proceeds of the phycologia, let then, pray, at once the sum I am still charged be paid in full, otherwise please use your own discretion.
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The reference is to the sale of copies of Harvey (1858-63) sent to M; see M to J. Hooker, 25 October 1866.
I ought perhaps to be more liberal, but really after 20 years stay in Australia I am finally almost worse off than when I came & must thus husband my slender resources, otherwise I shall never be able to establish a domestic home.
I send you some paper samples. Should you have received them already from Government direct, pray give these small bits to some other phytologic Museum.
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Fifteen samples of paper were entered in the Museum entry book Kew, 1861-79, p. 181, on 1 July 1867.
Your
Ferd Mueller
I have commenced a tabellar
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tabular?
statistic of all plants of Australia, in which medicinal, technological, geographical &c indications are given. I shall complete it as a byework.
4
M appears never to have published the tabulation.
Could not Prof Balfour send you a small off-shoot of Mesembryanthemum tegens. It reached Edinburgh quite safely.
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See M to J. Balfour, 27 December 1866 (in this edition as 66-12-27a).
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Enhydra

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Sobreyra

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as it is also a zoologic name!
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One of four genera of the weasel family (Mustelidae).
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lutris is the sea otter.