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RB MSS M3, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. 73.05.15a

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George Bentham to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1873-05-15 [73.05.15a]. 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/73-05-15a>, accessed September 11, 2025

25, WILTON PLACE. S.W.
May 15 /73
My dear Sir
I have delayed writing to you till the last day in the hopes of being able to announce to you the arrival of the box of inferior ovary Monocotyledons — but the Hampshire is not yet among the arrivals
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See M to G. Bentham, 1 March 1873 (in this edition as 73-03-01a).
In the mean time your
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were sent off from Kew the week before last and I trust you will receive them safe — After them it will still require three or four hundred species to make up the volume so that after all I may be obliged to make the volume a short one. You will have received eight sheets
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Bentham (1863-78), vol. 6, sheets B – I, i.e. pp. 1-128.
I think and three or four more are in type.
You will have seen our friend Mr George Macleay
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Macleay had delivered to M a case of deciduous trees from Kew, see M to J. Hooker, 25 March 1873.
He is much interested in your welfare and I hope you may find his friendly counsel of use in guiding you as to the best means of getting rid of your present annoyances
Yours ever truly
George Bentham
Baron Ferd v. Mueller