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A251 Gunn correspondence, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney. 58.10.22
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Ferdinand von Mueller to Ronald Gunn, 1858-10-22. 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//letters/1850-9/1858/58-10-22-final.odt>, accessed June 4, 2026
Melbourne bot and zool. Garden,
22. Oct 1858.
My dear Mr Gunn
Knowing that you are at all time ready to serve our favorite science, I take the liberty
to solicit from you a specimen of
, if you have such to spare, however small, as long as it contains at least one expanded
flower for disection, as I am working on some new parasital orchid of this country
and wished to compare
, which I have never seen.
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I enclose for the Launceston Industrial Exhibition a specimen of Angora-wool grown
in the Colony, the animals being now in the possession of this department are thriving
well. —
My report is now nearly printed & I shall feel much [pleasure]
in sending it to you [...]
week. Of my fragmenta [phy]tographiae Australiae [...] 3 are out, which I believe
[I sen]t to you, N. 4 is under [press].
1
uncertain reading — partly covered by ink blot.
2
illegible — covered by ink blot. The square brackets that follow also have this meaning.
With all sincerity
yours
Ferd. Mueller.
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