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S80/4008, unit 1229, VPRS 3991/P inward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria. 80.04.17
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Ferdinand von Mueller to William Odgers, 1880-04-17. 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/80-04-17>, accessed September 11, 2025
South-Yarra,
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Melbourne.
17 Apr. 1880.
To W. H. Odgers Esqr
Undersecretary
Sir.
I have the honor to solicit, that the honorable the Chief Secretary will be pleased
to convey through the Agent General to the Right honorable the Secretary of State
for the Colonies my best expression of appreciation of the honor, shown me by his
Majesty the Emperor of the Austrian and Hungarian Empire,
in presenting to me the magnificent volume on the
of Brazil gathered by the late Emperor Maximilian of Mexico.
This volume must be valued most highly, as to this princely gift attaches a particularly
deep and sad interest, as it is one of the bequests of a Sovereign, distinguished
by his patronage and cultivation of science.
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Franz Joseph I.
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Peyritsch (1879). The copy in the State Library of Victoria is inscribed on the title
page ‘Presented by Baron Ferd, von Mueller April 19th 1880’.
May I further suggest, that in return for this splendid volume, which I intend to
place in the public library of Melbourne, an elegantly bound copy of the series of
my works, may be presented to the Imperial Library of Vienne.
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M's suggestion was approved on 30 April 1880 and Odgers asked J. Ferres, the Government
Printer, to forward the books to 'this office'. Ferres responded, on 22 September
1880: 'These works bound as requested were supplied to the Baron's assistant yesterday
to deliver at the Chief Secretary's Office accordingly'. A letter was sent to the
Agent General in London on 2 October 1880. The 23 volumes sent are listed on a memorandum
as follows from the Agent General's office to the Colonial Office, a copy of which
is included in the file together with copies of related correspondence between the
Colonial Office and the office of the Agent General. The works sent were evidently
not all rebound in a uniform style. They are listed here with the titles given in
the list, although some vary from the actual title as published. The number from M's
publication list has been added.
Described as 'bound':
Eucalypts of Australia Decades I to V 4º as a single volume (B79.13.11, plus Decade
5 which is included in B80.13.14)
Forest Resources of W. Australia 4º (B79.13.10)
Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae I to X as individual volumes (B60.02.04, B62.02.03,
B63.04.06, B65.02.09, B67.02.07, B69.08.01, B72.02.08, B75.04.06, B76.01.09, B78.13.10)
Organic Constituents of Plants (B78.06.09)
Papuan Plants Vol I (B77.13.14)
Native Plants of Victoria Vol I (B79.06.04)
Described as 'half bound':
Select extra tropical Plants for Industrial Culture in Victoria (B76.12.03)
Indian edition (B80.13.07)
Plants indigenous to Victoria 4º Vol I (B63.13.06)
Lithograms (B65.02.06)
Described as 'boards':
Vegetable Fossils of Victoria (B74.13.07)
Vegetation of the Chatham Islands (B64.10.02)
Introduction to Botanic Teachings at the Schools of Victoria (B77.08.01)
Australian mosses (B64.10.03)
See also M to W. Odgers, 28 September 1880, and M to T. Wilson, 4 August 1881 (in this edition as 81-08-04a).
I have the honor to be,
Sir,
your obedient
Ferd. von Mueller.