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Ferdinand von Mueller to the Société d'Acclimatation, Paris, 1873-05 [73.05.00c]. 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/1870-9/1873/73-05-00c-final.odt>, accessed May 10, 2026

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Letter not found. The text given here is from Bulletin de la Société d'Acclimatation, series 2, vol. 10 (1873), p. 577. M’s letter is dated to May 1873 as the latest likely date that it could have been written to have been reported at the meeting of the Society held on 25 July 1973.
[M. le baron Ferd. von Mueller, directeur du jardin botanique de Melbourne, et M. Thozet, de Rockhampton (Queensland), font hommage à la Société de diverses graines de végétaux d'Australie. A son envoi M. von Mueller avait joint une note en réponse au questionnaire sur les Mélipones.]
[Baron Ferd. von Mueller, director of the Melbourne Botanical Garden, and Mr Thozet of Rockhampton, Queensland, present to the Society various seeds of plants from Australia. Mr von Mueller had attached to his despatch a note in reply to the questionnaire on Melipones.]
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Stingless bees; M's response not found. See Raveret-Wattel (1872), where the Society's interest in the potential for acclimatizing these bees is discussed, and the rationale of offering a prize for the successful introduction of them into France. The questionnaire of 27 questions is at pp. 430-2. In the report of the study, Raveret-Wattel (1875a), Thozet and the Sydney Agricultural Society are acknowledged for supplying Australian information (p. 733), but the discussion of the Australian experience (pp. 757-9) does not identify their individual responses.