Ferdinand von Mueller

27/2/82.

I feel, sure, dear Sir Joseph, that the experiment initiated by me to send living plants from K.G. Sound

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King George Sound, WA.

to Kew in close cases during the cool season will result in manyfold successes.

2

See, for example, M to J. Hooker, 26 August 1881.

You will be gratified to hear that I have secured the Sonderian collections by purchase on behalf of the Victorian Government.

3

You will ... collections is marked with a line in the margin. For M's requests, and the Government's final agreement to purchase the collection, see M to J. Moore, 3 October 1863; M to J. McCulloch, 25 September 1866 (in this edition as 66-09-25a); M to C. Duffy, 20 September 1871; and M to L. Smith, 16 February 1882 and notes to that letter.

I bought the

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many years ago already;

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See M to J. MacPherson, 6 April 1870.

but one great gem of the collection, as you know, the South African plants, went to Stockholm.

5

See Nordenstam (1980).

My negotiations with my poor departed friend concerning his collections commenced more than 20 years ago.