Ferdinand von Mueller

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.

1

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.

Eucalyptus amygdalina

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is measured here nearly half a thousand feet high! Can you kindly furnish me some exact data on

Sequoia Wellingtonia

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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

Without wishing to be immodest, pray let me ask what can be done on my part to secure

Nelumbium luteum

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for Australia.