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Gray Herbarium Archives, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. 59.11.17

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Ferdinand von Mueller to Asa Gray, 1859-11-17. 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/1850-9/1859/59-11-17-final.odt>, accessed June 4, 2026

Melbourne bot. & zool Garden
17. Nov. 59
My dear Professor Gray.
I was equally delighted with your kind letter
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and your valuable contribution of plants & seeds pr. "Huntress" & am especially indebted to you for the singular
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.
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The numerous publication, all of depth & clearness, testify to the great assiduity and profound knowledge, which you display, and I congratulate myself that you condescended to enter with me in a so frequent intercourse of exchange & correspondence. I hope to be able to make up at the end of the season (Febr. or March) a large collection of dried specimens & seeds. Meanwhile also the first vol. (containing
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) of the "plants of Victoria"
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B62.03.03.
& also of the Fragmenta will be out,
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B59.12.02.
& my report on the garden
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B60.01.01.
and also on Mr Stuart's plants
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B60.06.01.
from the N.W. interior of South Australia. The phil. Institute begs to offer its most grateful acknowledgement to the academy for the liberal donation of your volumes
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At an ordinary meeting of the Philosophical Institute of Victoria, 16 November 1859, the following contributions were laid upon the table: '"Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences," Vols. I. to IV. inclusive (dating from May, 1846, to May, 1848); also Parts I. and II. of Volume VI. (new series) of the Memoirs of the "American Academy of Arts and Sciences" — by the Academy'. See Transactions of the Philosophical Institute of Victoria , vol. 4 (1860), p. xxviii.
so replete with important information, & only regrets that our young society is not yet strong enough to offer an equivalent acceptable to the scientific men of your great state.
The official acknowledgement will come through Dr Macadam.
With my sincerest admiration & regard I remain, my very
dear Professor,
your attached
Ferd. Mueller.
There is great demand here for
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as a medicinal herb.
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The root of this plant was a source of the alkaloid Berberin. See B72.13.02.
Could you favor me with a few seeds?