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MS 13071, Royal Society of Victoria Exploration Committee records, MF 433, reel 10, La Trobe Australian Manuscripts Collection, State Library of Victoria, Australia. 61.08.29a

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Ferdinand von Mueller to John Macadam, 1861-08-29 [61.08.29a]. 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/1860-9/1861/61-08-29a-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

Melbourne bot. & zool. Garden,
29. Aug. 61.
Sir,
Having been requested by the Council of the Royal Society to give my opinion on the byefollowing notes on plants collected by Dr Beckler during the Victorian Expedition,
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M’s letter is filed with Beckler's report.
I have the honor to inform you, that these notes refer to plants collected during Dr Becklers excursions whilst under orders of Mr Wright. The observations being such as only on the living plants can be instituted, they are of value for being inserted to the systematic enumeration of all the plants of the expedition, which essay I shall be happy to place before the Royal Society after Dr Becklers return,
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No such ‘systematic enumeration’ was ever published.
when the main portion of the plants will probably arrive and be available for examination.
The species, to which the numbers refer in Dr Becklers list, are already identified; yet I think it preferable to retain these notes for the general memoir on Dr Becklers plants and would beg leave to suggest, that for this purpose the notes may be returned to me.
I have the honor to be,
Sir,
your most obedient servant
Ferd. Mueller.
The hon. Dr Macadam, M.P.
Hon. Secr Roy. Soc. Vict.
&c&c&c