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73.10.00e

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Ferdinand von Mueller to the Societe d'Acclimatation, Paris, 1873-10 [73.10.00e]. 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/1870-9/1873/73-10-00e-final.odt>, accessed May 15, 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), pp. 906-7. The letter is dated to October as the latest likely date that it could have been sent to have been reported at the meeting of 12 December 1873. It is possible that the letter covering the volume was not from M himself, but on his behalf by his London booksellers, see n. 2.
[M. Drouyn de Lhuys annonce ensuite que M. le baron Von Mueller, directeur du Jardin botanique de Melbourne, vient de faire don à la Société d'un exemplaire (six volumes in-8°) de sa Flora australiensis ; il dépose sur le bureau un volume de ce magnifique ouvrage.]
[Mr. Drouyn de Lhuys then announces that Baron Von Mueller, Director of the Melbourne Botanical Garden, has just given the Society a copy (six volumes in-8 °) of his Flora australiensis ;
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That is, the first six volumes of Bentham (1863-78). The sixth volume was published on 23 September 1873 (TL2) and must have been sent direct from London, as M had not seen the complete volume by December; see M to G. Bentham, 1 December 1873 (in this edition as 73-12-01a). The five earlier volumes were tabled at the meeting of 22 May 1874 (Bulletin de la Société d'acclimatation, series 3, vol. 1 (1874), p. 337.
he tabled one volume of this magnificent work.]