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Minutebook 1,September1856 - June1859,VPRS 11097/P000,Belfast Borough Council recordsVA 4030, Public Record Office, Victoria. 59.05.00ePreferred Citation:
Ferdinand von Mueller to John Mason, 1859-05 [59.05.00e]. 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/1850-9/1859/59-05-00e-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026
1
Letter not found. The text given here is from the minutes of the Belfast (later Port Fairy) Municipal Council meeting held on 25 May 1859. The item is dated to May as the latest date it could have been written to have been read at this meeting.
Samuel Merrick, the Council's Melbourne agent, wrote to the Council on 28 June 1859 advising that he had forwarded three bundles
of plants and one bundle of willow cuttings that he had received from M (Minute book
2;
Belfast gazette, 8 July 1859, p. 2;
Banner of Belfast, 9 July 1859, p. 3).
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Letter not found.