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73.00.00a

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Ferdinand von Mueller to William Bacchus, 1873 [73.00.00a]. 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/1870-9/1873/73-00-00a-final.odt>, accessed May 15, 2026

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Letter not found. For the fragment given here, see B74.07.08, which is introduced by Bacchus by: ‘In reply to my request for information Baron von Mueller writes:—'. Bacchus began his paper by thanking M for naming 'many of the grasses in my collection, and his courtesy in assisting me to find others; but owing to his time being so much occupied, there are several he could not work out'.
The number of grasses observed by me in Victorian territory is about ninety. A full account of our grasses will appear probably in 1874, in the seventh volume of the universal work on Australian plants, which is published by the President of the Linnean Society and myself in London. Until that volume shall have appeared, the naming of each kind of grass will not be very easy, involving as it does great critical research and tedious comparisons with numerous grasses of other countries.