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Barr Smith Library, University of Adelaide, SA. 84.06.10a

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Ferdinand von Mueller to Ralph Tate, 1884-06-10 [84.06.10a]. 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/84-06-10a>, accessed September 11, 2025

10/6/84.
Private
In the Kew-Report, just issued,
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The Gardeners' chronicle, 19 April 1884, p. 516 reports that the volume for 1882 of the Report on the progress and condition of the Royal Gardens at Kew had just been published after delays caused by the ill-health and absence of the Curator, and a further delay of six months in the press.
dear Professor, mention is made of the sending of a considerable lot of dried plants to the Herbarium from the Adel. Bot. Garden.
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M and the director of the Adelaide Botanic Garden, Richard Schomburgk, were not on good terms.
Presumable they must have been Australian ones. I just mention this, as you are interested in the S. A. Flora, and probably duplicates were retained.
The Rev. Mr Kempe has sent me an Eucalyptus, which I regard as a form of E. oldfieldii.
With best remembrance your
Ferd. von Mueller