The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: Melbourne bot Garden ¶ 7/9/71 ¶ ¶ By this post, reverend and dear Sir, I beg to return to you the work on fossil vegetables by Bowerbank, ¶ thanking you much for the loan. I have been so fortunate t...

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Physical location:

ML MSS.3608 Clarke papers, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney. 71.09.07

Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to William Branwhite Clarke, 1871-09-07. 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/71-09-07>, accessed September 11, 2025

For a published version of this letter, see Moyal (2003), p. 876.

Melbourne bot Garden

7/9/71

By this post, reverend and dear Sir, I beg to return to you the work on fossil vegetables by Bowerbank,

Bowerbank (1840).

thanking you much for the loan. I have been so fortunate to secure a copy since for my private library.

The copy is no longer among M's books in the library at the Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. For details of the unfinished work, see Williams & Torrens (2016).

Let me hope, venerable friend, that you are quite restored to strenght, such as at your advanced age you can hope yet to enjoy, and let me hope also that the evening of your active and useful life will be a long and serene one.

Always with affectionate wishes for your welfare your

Baron von Mueller.