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65.01.21b

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Ferdinand von Mueller to Wilhelm Keferstein, 1865-01-21 [65.01.21b]. 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/65-01-21b>, accessed September 11, 2025

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Letter not found. The text given here is from Keferstein (1865), p. 16.
[Dr Ferd. Müller belehrt mich in einem Briefe vom 21 Januar d. J., dass jene Angabe aufs Bestimmteste unrichtig sei, und ihm selbst eine Schwarze des Murray-Stammes bekannt wäre, die zwei Kinder von Vätern der weissen Race gebar und dann wieder ein ächtes Kind der australischen Race hervorbrachte.]
[Dr Ferd. Müller informs me in a letter of 21 January this year that that statement is most definitely incorrect, and he himself had known a Black from the Murray tribe who gave birth to two children by fathers of the white race and then brought forth a real child of the Australian race.
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The assertion that women who gave birth to mixed-race children could not thereafter have children with black fathers had appeared in the Report of the select committee of the Legislative Council on the Aborigines (Melbourne, 1859).
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