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D74/3969, unit 768, VPRS 3991/P inward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria. 74.03.29

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Ferdinand von Mueller to James Francis, 1874-03-29. 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/1870-9/1874/74-03-29-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

Melbourne
29/3/74.
The honorable
the Chief Secretary.
Sir
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of the XXVIII part of Major Beddome's Flora silvatica
1
Beddome (1869-74). Transmitted with T. Ware to M, 26 March 1874 (in this edition as 74-03-26a).
and the XI part of his icones,
2
Beddome (1874), part 11. Transmitted with T. Ware to M, 21 March 1874 (in this edition as 74-03-21a). The work was issued in 15 parts. Turner (2012), p. 304, dates this part to 1873 which is the date on the part at the Linnean Society of London. However, there is a copy dated 1874 in private hands.
which have been placed into the library of the Department, and for which I tender my best thanks.
I have the honor to be,
Sir, your obedient servant
Ferd. von Mueller.