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Y83/10732, unit 1418, VPRS 3991/P inward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria. 83.11.14a

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Ferdinand von Mueller to Graham Berry, 1883-11-14 [83.11.14a]. 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/83-11-14a>, accessed April 20, 2025

Melbourne,
14. Nov. 1883.
To the honorable Graham Berry, M.L.A.
Chief Secretary.
Sir
I have the honor to report, that the annex to the bot. Museum is now completed, and that yesterday the 38 cases of the Sonderian Collection were placed there by the Stores- and Transport-Department.
1
See M to G. Berry, 20 October 1883 (in this edition as 83-10-20a).
So soon as the repositories will be ready, for the furnishing of which the public works Department is now making arrangements, I shall be able to commence the unpacking and give then and after the sorting and arranging is completed a fuller account of the contents of this large collection.
2
No account by M has been found. Gallagher & Moraes (2014), p. 60, reported that 'less than 15 per cent [of specimens] are mounted and databased. Most of the material is still sto red much as it was when it arrived at MEL 130 years ago: in bundles of intricately interleaved paper folders containing loose specimens with loose labels'.
I have the honor to be,
Sir,
your obedient servant
Ferd von Mueller