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No. 237, 1874, Crown Lands and Immigration Office, State Records of South Australia, Adelaide. 74.02.23Preferred Citation:
Ferdinand von Mueller to William Everard, 1874-02-23. 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/1870-9/1874/74-02-23-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026
Melbourne,
Febr 1874.
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The letter was registered in Adelaide on 26 February 1874. It is dated to 23 February
as the probable latest date it was written to be received and registered.
To the honorable the Minister of Crownlands,
Adelaide.
Sir.
I have the honor to solicit, that you will be pleased to sanction my obtaining an
opportunity of examining such plants, as Mr W. C. Gosse and his companions may have
secured for Museum- and Science-purposes during their meritorious recent explorations.
If you and your honorable Colleagues of the Ministry approve of my application, I
will carefully elaborate these collections and furnish a report thereon, of course
without any expense to your Government.
Should there be only one set, I should return the plants to you after examination;
if however a
good
and
full
extra set exists, I should be grateful to incorporate it in the great collections,
commenced by me in 1840, collections which have not been without value in elucidating
largely already the vegetable treasures of your colonial territory
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MS annotation: 'Write to Baron von Mueller stating that only two small parcels of
dried plants were brought in by Mr Gosse's party & that the specimens will be retained
in our Botanic Museum in Adelaide'. The annotation added that Dr Schomburgk 'be instructed
to forward to [M] any duplicates'. All this was 'Acted on' by 5 March.
I have the honor to be,
Sir, your very obedient
Ferd. von Mueller.