Ferdinand von Mueller

Melbourne bot Garden

17/7/69.

I have with much gratitude to acknowledge, dear Prof Decaisne, your great favor in sending such a rich collection of seeds from the garden of the Museum. I now forward by this mail 275 spec. Australian seeds, also 5 kinds of seeds of Eucalypts through the mediation of the Imperial Acclimation-Society, to whom it was easy to send your package, as Banquier Hesse is the Society's Agent at Marseille.

I have just this moment ordered a gyps

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i.e. gypsum-based plaster.

cast to be made of the model of the great gold-mass, discovered here this year in the alluvium for the Paris Museum. I will send it to you next month, also soon the 6th vol. of my Fragmenta.

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See notes to M to J. Decaisne, 28 February 1869 (in this edition as 69-02-28d).

Pray give my kind regard to Prof Brogniart

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i.e. Brongniart.