Ferdinand von Mueller

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MS black-edged; M's brother-in-law, Eduard Wehl, died on 11 February 1876.

2/9/76

I am under much obligation to you, dear Mr Mitten, for the sending & naming of the mosses from Paramatta

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NSW.

&c, forwarded by Mr Arthur Barnett with great promptness. I wish much, that an index of names of all Australian mosses with indications of their localities could be published.

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Mitten prepared an enumeration of Australian mosses that M edited and published (B83.05.01).

The material is partly at Kew and with you, partly with Hampe, partly with Lindberg (who has kept a large portion of my bryologic collections since years and is regardless to all my letters for returning these collections), partly with Berggren.

But as the means of communication are now so easy in Europe, there could be not much difficulty, if the elaboration was taken up by a leading bryologist like yourself, as the loan of the collections from Blankenburg, Stockholm and Helsingfors

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Now Helsinki.

might be obtained.