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Gray Herbarium Archives, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. 59.05.16b

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Ferdinand von Mueller to Asa Gray, 1859-05-16 [59.05.16b]. 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/1850-9/1859/59-05-16b-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

Melbourne bot. & zoolog. Garden
16 May 59.
Dear Professor Asa Gray.
I do not wish that the mail shall leave without acknowledging the arrival of the "Isabella" by which you were so very kind to forward to me a large box, which however is not yet in my hands. Pray accept my kindest thanks for the content of it & for your continued generosity. There was a good opportunity of making a sending to you by the "Golconda", of which I have not failed to avail myself moreover as the obliging commander of that vessel Capt Emerson not even would accept freight for the sending.
The box I sent contains 1 coll of dried specimens = about 480 species mostly rare species from the Darling,
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some of them only discovered this season — 1 coll. 390 species 1 coll 220 spec. 1 coll 200 sp and 4 coll each about 100 spec = total about 1200 specimens. Further 4 coll seeds respectively 328, 310, 321 & 256 all well ripened & fresh. I put also some printings in & forwarded a few weeks ago other printings by a friend who happened to send things by an American vessel to New York. Capt Emerson had the kindness of taking also care of a small parcel containing some copies of V Fragmenta
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for distribution to you. The box was closed by the tinsmith before I could get them from the printer. I am in possession of your excellent little work "How plants grow".
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A. Gray (1858); there are copies of both the London and New York editions at MEL.
If there is any of your scientific men who requires any of my humble works or if there is any institution that would like to possess them, pray let me know.
I will think of adding to your carpologic collection.
Ever with veneration & attachment
yours
Ferd. Mueller.
Kind regards to the excellent Torrey, Engelmann & Sullivant.