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Physical location:

RB MSS 439c, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. 73.05.23

Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to Michael Guilfoyle, 1873-05-23. 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/1870-9/1873/73-05-23-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

Melbourne bot. Garden,
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3 over 2.
/5/73.
I read with much interest your article,
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See R. Pescott (1974), pp. 52–4, quoting Murwillumbah daily news, Centenary Supplement, 1923.
dear Mr Guilfoyle, on your ascent of Mount Warning,
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NSW.
and admire the elequent and almost poetic language, in which you fused it. Let me hope, that you will contribute similar articles from time to time to the same journal. I should much like to ask, whether you can get me soon good flowering and fruiting specimens of Petermannia. I should like to settle the genus better, than I could do from Dr Beckler's imperfect material, not only for the sake of my friend Prof. Dr Petermann, the great geographer of Gotha, but also because the plant has to take its place in the 7th volume of the Flora.
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Bentham (1863-78).
Regardfully your
Ferd. von Mueller.
Petermannia