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RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, f. 399. 69.08.13

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Ferdinand von Mueller to George Bentham, 1869-08-13. 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/1860-9/1869/69-08-13-final.odt>, accessed June 4, 2026

13/8/69
I am glad, dear Mr Bentham, that you so well proceed with the 5th vol. The arrangement you made in disposing of the species of
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seems very applicable.
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See G. Bentham to M, 9 June 1869 (in this edition as 69.06.09a).
The views on the limits of genera must of necessity vary much, particularly as long as all the species are not yet known.
We have telegraphic news respecting the arrival of the Anglesey. So, I trust, my two boxes will have come to you as safe as the rest.
2
M shipped two boxes per i on 7 July 1869 (Notebook recording despatch of plants for Flora Australiensis, RB, MSS M44, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne).
I am shipping to Kew this week pr Norfolk some supplemental
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. I shall unquestionalbly have to send an other supplemental case, as always (almost daily) plants arrive from distant places, which show a wider extent of the species than formerly ascertained.
Some notes on
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e &
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e, are in manuscript since the end of the last year. I hope to publish them in the next number of the Fragmenta.
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B69.10.01, pp 50-9.
Let me hope you are well and that you not overstrain your strenght
Always with
deep regards
Ferd. von Mueller