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67.05.00o

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Ferdinand von Mueller to the Age, 1867-05 [67.05.00o]. 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/1860-9/1867/67-05-00o-final.odt>, accessed May 15, 2026

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MS not found. The text given here is from 'News of the day', Age, 11 May 1867, p. 5. It was also published in the Leader, 11 May 1867, p. 19, and the Geelong advertiser, 13 May 1867, p. 2.
Dr. Mueller desires us to state that he would feel indebted to any friend of the Gardens sending prepared specimens of any of the birds to be met with around Melbourne, for the formation of a small cabinet near the Palm House, in order that visitors of the gardens may obtain there an opportunity of inspecting any of the 140 species which, migratorily, periodically or stationarily, visit the gardens. The weeping cherry-tree of the Murray Desert (
Exocarpus pendula

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), in the gardens, is loaded with flowers. Attention is much attracted by the fine bushes of Hakea
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The text has 'hakell', a clear typographical error.
suaveolens, from West Australia, one of the very best of all the hedge plants.