The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: ¶ [The next day we went early to the Government Botanic Gardens, ¶ … I am promised by the director a quantity of valuable seeds and plants to be delivered to my order next March and April. I gave hi...

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64.07.00a

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Ferdinand von Mueller to Charles Ledger, 1864-07 [64.07.00a]. 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/1860-9/1864/64-07-00a-final.odt>, accessed June 9, 2026

Letter not found. For the text given here, see 'Mr. C. Ledger', Age, 31 July 1865, p. 6, an account by Ledger of some of his experiences during a visit to Chile following his arrival there on 10 October 1864.

[The next day we went early to the Government Botanic Gardens,

In Santiago, Chile. Since Ledger reports going to Santiago and visiting the Botanic Gardens only a few days after he first arrived at Valparaiso, he must have carried the seeds he mentions from Australia, and so received these from M before the ship that carried him to South America sailed in July 1864.

… I am promised by the director a quantity of valuable seeds and plants to be delivered to my order next March and April. I gave him a number of packets of Australian seeds, kindly sent to me by Dr. Mueller.]