Document information

Physical location:

MS MS SEQUENCE, Australian Box 4/1, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne. 70.08.06

Plant names

Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to Daniel Bunce, 1870-08-06. 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/1870-9/1870/70-08-06-final.odt>, accessed June 4, 2026

Melbourne bot. Garden
6/8/70.
Accept my best thanks, dear Mr Bunce, for your goodness in sending the fresh
Clianthus

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seeds. In response to your call I send now through Mr Rob Bird
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Not further identified.
a case with Conservatory plants, not many; yet you will see my good will at least. I am so short-handed , that I cannot do much for others now, however much I may wish.
Whether I can after all respond to your kind invitation is very doubtful. The complications in my department involve so much loss of time , that I am far less able than even formerly to muster spare hours. But I am all the same grateful for your attention & that of your Lady.
Pray tell Mr Douglas
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Probably Alfred Douglass.
, that I was very sorry to miss his kind visit. I was on duty in the industrial Museum when he called.
With my best wishes your
Ferd. von Mueller.