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MS Q442 inward correspondence, Gregory papers, Dixson Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney. 57.10.03

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Ferdinand von Mueller to Augustus Gregory, 1857-10-03. 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/57-10-03>, accessed May 10, 2024

Melbourne bot Garden
3. Oct. 1857.
Dear Mr Gregory,
I am intruding with these lines on you, to hear if you think you could spare a few of your precious hours for some brief information on the physical geography of West Australia. My paper for the Institute has been fixed for November, and I should be proud to introduce any of your observations in it.
1
B58.05.03, which was read before the Philosophical Institute of Victoria on 25 November 1857.
The South Australian Explorers seem to have done comparitively, little but I am not yet in possession of particulars about Mr Hacks route.
2
Stephen Hack travelled for three months through the dry country south and west of Lake Gairdner, SA, in 1857. See Threadgill (1922) pp. 32-5.
My letter in reply to your kind letter of last month,
3
Letters not found.
in which you expressed your intention to take the field again
4
Leichhardt Search Expedition, 1858.
and to serve simultaneously bot. science has, I hope, arrived.
Goyders fresh water seas seem to have vanished in miarage
5
George Goyder, Assistant Surveyor of South Australia, travelled to the north of the Flinders Ranges in 1857 and found the supposed Lake Torrens of Eyre to contain fresh water. 'The northern explorations', South Australian register, 26 September 1857, p. 2, included a letter from A. Freeling dated 6 September from 'Fifteen miles south of Lake Torrens' reporting his visit to the area and attributing some of Goyder's report to the effects of a mirage, and the permanent fresh water to a transient flood. See also Threadgill (1922), pp. 5-7, 15-17.
Believe me, dear Sir
to be your most attached
Ferd. Mueller