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Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, Thos Anderson, box 2, letters from various originators, vol. 1, f. 166. 67.02.25a

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Ferdinand von Mueller to Thomas Anderson, 1867-02-25 [67.02.25a]. 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/1860-9/1867/67-02-25a-final.odt>, accessed June 4, 2026

25/2/67
I am not quite well, dear Professor, and can thus only very briefly adress you in response to your very friendly last letters. My indisposition must also be the excuse that I did not send any seeds by this mail. I had a most kind letter from your worthy father
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Thomas Anderson, secretary of the National bank of Scotland (ODNB). Letter not found.
and I am so glad that so far the object of our united wishes was accomplished The seeds you so generously supplied have safely arrived I will send you a case with
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but have no seeds.
I admire your perseverance & success in the Cinchona culture! I have now several thousand plants (the majority C. Condaminea) which I intend this autumn to trust out in our so called "fern tree gullies" Seeds of C. Calisaya & C. micrantha, of which species I have but a limited number are always a great boon
We are here in the Australian vegetation excessively poor in
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,
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See Anderson (1864), Anderson (1867).
even in the north.
With sincerity
your friend
Ferd Mueller