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VPRS 5831/PO/8, correspondence inward — miscellaneous letters, pp. 236-9, VA 912 Trustees of the Public Library, Museums and National Gallery of Victoria 1869-1944, Public Record Office, Victoria. 80.04.17b

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Ferdinand von Mueller to Redmond Barry, 1880-04-17 [80.04.17b]. 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/80-04-17b>, accessed September 11, 2025

Arnold-Street,
South-Yarra,
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Melbourne.
17/4/80
It gives me much pleasure, dear Sir Redmond, to present to the grand public Library, which you mainly created, the magnificent work on Brazilian
Aroideae

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, presented to myself by the grace of the Emperor of Austria.
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Peyritsch (1879). See M to W. Odgers, 17 April 1880. The copy that M presented remains at the State Library of Victoria (*SEF 584.64 P46). There are two inscriptions in different hands, neither of them M's: 'Presented by Baron Ferd. von Mueller April 19th 1880' and 'Entd. Stock Book p. 265 | May 1880'. See also Struve (2010).
To this princely gift attaches a particularly deep and sad interest, as it [is]
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one of the many precious literary bequests of a Sovereign, celebrated for his patronage and cultivation of science.
Altho' I value this imperial gift most highly, I deem it best, that this splendid work should find a place in the great public Library here, in order that it may be accessible in all futurity to the generality of of
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the colonists, and thus also the munificence of the imperial donor become appreciated also here in the widest circles. I may be allowed to add, though in all due modesty, that I was one of those, to whom Dr H. Schott of Vienne, the principal author also of this new work, has dedicated in 1860 his celebrated prodromus systematis Aroidearum,
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Schott (1860). As M indicates, he is listed among the 24 botanists to whom Schott dedicated this work. His copy of the book, inscribed 'Clariss. Ferd. Mueller Auctor' [The Author to the illustrious Ferd. Mueller], is in the library at the Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne.
on which he had worked for 40 years.
Let me remain
dear Sir Redmond
regardfully your
Ferd von Mueller
His Honor Sir Redm. Barry K.C.M.G., L.L.D.
President of the trustrees of the public Library