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RBG Kew, Kew Correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1882-90, f. 42. 83.00.00g

Plant names

Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to [William Thiselton-Dyer], 1883 [83.00.00g]. 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/83-00-00g>, accessed September 11, 2025

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MS is a sheet of blue letter-paper on to which an herbarium label bearing the text has been glued.
PHYTOLOGIC MUSEUM OF MELBOURNE
Ldl.
Near Ballarat
BARON FERD. VON MUELLER, PH. & M.D
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The label is annotated in purple pencil by W. Thiselton-Dyer: smashed & dead March 13/83
Below the label is pasted an apparently unrelated piece of white letter paper on which Daniel Oliver has written in ink: Davidsonia (Saxifrag[ee] Shd. be glad of a specimen for Herbm (from F. v Mueller).
Under this, on the blue paper, ?W. Thiselton-Dyer has written in purple pencil: wrote March 14/83 [letter not found, but see J. Hooker to M, 12 March 1883].