Ferdinand von Mueller

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Letter not found. The text given here is from Herald (Fremantle), 23 December 1871, p. 3 (B71.12.09). It is appended to a letter to the Editor from L.W.C. dated 15 December that says: 'I send you extracts from a letter I have just received from Baron Von Mueller, Curator of Botanical Gardens'. L.W.C has not been identified. The letter is dated to early December on the basis that the mail from the eastern colonies arrived in Fremantle early on 14 December 1871 ( Herald , 16 December 1871, p. 3), for which the Melbourne mail for Western Australia closed on 6 December ( Argus , 4 December 1871, p. 4).

Many thanks for the fragments of the two rare plants you sent me, both are known but from other localities

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&c &c &c interpolated following a closing quotation mark .

I wish you could induce all intelligent and educated inland settlers to collect the plants of the vicinity and send them to me by parcel post.

Nothing will come amiss from your colony, as the range of the species have to be determined.

The collectors names will always be given in my works.

Perhaps your local papers would help, and insert a memorandum, drawing attention to my wishes.

We want the plants as well in flower as in fruit.

Would your intellig e nt c hil dren (throughout, the colony?) dry Seaweeds f or me , if I sp ent a few pounds on the subject ?