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ML MSS.562, Letters to E. P. Ramsay 1862-91, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney. 82.10.02a

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Ferdinand von Mueller to Edward Ramsay, 1882-10-02 [82.10.02a]. 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/82-10-02a>, accessed September 11, 2025

2/10/82
It is very kind of you, dear Mr Ramsay, to help on the Algology of N.S.W. through Mr Bennetts
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K. H. Bennett.
aid and through your own personal exertions. The mail brought this morning the specimens from Port Stephens,
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NSW.
and these shall also have careful attention. Th[e] green
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I had not yet from N. S. Wales I will send you bye & bye specimens of your Algs back, fully named, but at present I am striving to finish the Census of the vascular plants,
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B83.03.04.
so that the volume may be out in 1882 yet.
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Letterstedtia ? See Agardh (1873-90), part 3, pp. 175-7 (1883).
What a lamentable loss also to the L.S, the conflagration of your palace!
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The entire library of the Linnean Society of NSW was lost in the fire that, in the early morning of 22 September 1882, destroyed Sydney's Garden Palace, built in the Domain to house the International Exhibition of 1879.
But really why was to such a building not given at all events a coating of Waterglass ;
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Sodium silicate.
the trifling expenditure of that would have so far protected the wood, as to render the combustion slow, and then the works of art & science and the important documents could have yet timely been saved. All Theater scenery ought by law be rendered unflammable (though they would be still slowly combustible) by the use of Waterglass, which can so cheaply be produced from Sand, Charcoal & Potash.
Regardfully
your
Ferd. von Mueller.
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