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Gray Herbarium Archives, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. 67.03.26

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Ferdinand von Mueller to Asa Gray, 1867-03-26. 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/1860-9/1867/67-03-26-final.odt>, accessed June 4, 2026

Melb. Stategarden.
26/3/67.
Private
The enclosed bill of ladings show you, dear Prof. Gray, that again two consignments were despatched by my London Agents.
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Messrs Betham & Blackith.
I trust they will give pleasure. Your illustrious collegue
2
Louis Agassiz.
might give perhaps an enumeration of all the fishes I sent. Alcohol being here so expensive I have had outlays over hundred guineas alone for various ichthyologic collections I sent to different Musea, and to my knowledge not a line is any where written on them. I spent in the course of the last 20 years about one thousand pounds Sterling for zoological collections for donations & yet science has scarcely had any benefit of them.
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My Agents in London have defrayed the freight also to Boston. is measured here nearly half a thousand feet high! Can you kindly furnish me some exact data on for the sake of comparison.
This winter I shall be freer for Museum work & I will send you many plants from tropical Australia; perhaps you could give me some Californian from the excellent Prof. Brewer's collection in exchange.
A fish list from Agassiz in all Australian waters would be a boon for local zoology & a basis of operation & encourage us to go on.
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Let me remain with sincerest regards
yr
Ferd. Mueller.
Without wishing to be immodest, pray let me ask what can be done on my part to secure for Australia.