Document information

Physical location:

Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, Thomas Anderson, box 2, letters from various originators 1859-68, vol. 1, No. 169. 67.05.30

Plant names

Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to Thomas Anderson, 1867-05-30. 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/1860-9/1867/67-05-30-final.odt>, accessed May 15, 2026

30/5/67
This day, dear Prof Anderson, I have shipped to you [pr]
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"Medusa" a case [fu]ll of strong plants [of] Araucaria ex[ce]lsa free of freight [by the] kindness of the [Ca]ptain. Pray return the case filled with [sp]iceplants, Siphonia [el]astica, [C]amphora, Isonandra [gu]tta, and any other [preeminently]
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useful plant.
Your regardful
Ferd. Mueller
I was exceedingly glad to receive the large lot of plants you so generously sent for my State Museum through Mr Kurz. I have shipped to you by this months mail two collections of seeds, chiefly from tropical Australia, in all 82 species I sent also for your shelter 2 sp of in good quantity of seed[.]
I am ornamenting my Lake, for which purpose any would be a real boon, as I have only B. arundinacea. In my Victoria House I have not yet Euryale