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66.03.00b

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Ferdinand von Mueller to Samuel Davenport, 1866-03 [66.03.00b]. 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/1860-9/1866/66-03-00b-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

1
Letter not found. For the text given here, see 'Letters' in the report of a meeting of the 'General Committee of the Paris Universal Exhibition, 1867' in Adelaide observer, 24 March 1866, p. 3.
[A letter was read from the Hon. S. Davenport, … enclosing a letter from Dr. Mueller, of Melbourne recommending a display of several varieties of Northern Territory timber, and stating that if these were accompanied by a corresponding number of flowering and fruit-bearing trees, the scientific appellations could be given to the specimens.
2
The suggestion was 'referred to the Miscellaneous Sub-Committee'.
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