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61.10.00b

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Ferdinand von Mueller to the Exhibition Committee, Beechworth, 1861-10 [61.10.00b]. 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/1860-9/1861/61-10-00b-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

1
Letter not found. The text given here is from 'The Beechworth Exhibition', Constitution and Ovens mining intelligencer (Beechworth, Vic) , 15 October 1861, p. 2. The item was reprinted in Herald (Melbourne), 17 October 1861, p. 7.
[At a meeting of the Exhibition Committee held yesterday, Mr. Darvell read a letter from Mr. Cowderoy, the Melbourne agent, stating that the contributions from this district had arrived in good order, and that they had been properly displayed in the Melbourne Exhibition.
2
The Victorian Exhibition of 1861, preliminary to the London International Exhibition, 1862.
Dr. Mueller had applied for a transverse section of the Curragong Tree,
3
More usually spelled Currajong or Kurrajong; spelled Curryong in the vernacular name of Brachychiton populneum in Victorian Exhibition (1861), p. 228, where it is listed in the table of 'Timber specimens' and attributed to the 'Ovens Committee'.
and the committee authorised one to be transmitted.]