The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: Melbourne bot. & zool Garden ¶ 7. July 59 ¶ My dear Mr Hyndman ¶ ¶ I gladly accept your kind offer of carrying out some little commissions of mine in New South Wales. ¶ Pray be so friendly then to d...

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RB MSS M34, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. 59.07.07

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Cedrela
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Ferdinand von Mueller to William Hyndman, 1859-07-07. 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/1850-9/1859/59-07-07-final.odt>, accessed May 9, 2026

Melbourne bot. & zool Garden

7. July 59

My dear Mr Hyndman

I gladly accept your kind offer of carrying out some little commissions of mine in New South Wales.

Hyndman was going to Sydney to acquire trees for planting in municipal gardens in Melbourne. See Argus, 23 August, 1859. p. 6.

Pray be so friendly then to distribute the enclosed reprints, which contain some N. S. Wales plants.

If you have a chance of getting seeds of , any , (there is one at Ipswich) not yet introduced in Victoria) — , , & any other large native tree of umbrageous foliage, they will be very acceptable indeed.

Wishing you an agreable trip,

I remain,

dear Sir,

yours truly

Ferd Mueller

I have just an invoice in of £70 worth of shrub & tree seeds from Henderson, most species not yet in Australia. Pray do not forget about the .