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E74/8253, unit 742, VPRS 3991/P inward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria. 74.06.25

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Ferdinand von Mueller to Thomas Ware, 1874-06-25. 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/1870-9/1874/74-06-25-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

Melbourne,
25/6/74.
Th. Ware Esq. &c.
Acting Undersecretary.
Sir
In reply to your memorandum just received
1
See T. Ware to M, 24 June 1874.
I have the honor to inform you, that beyond the local publications mentioned by you the following are from my hand:
"The objects of a botanic Garden in relation to industries"; issued by the trustees of the industrial Museum (public Library Department) in 1872.
2
B72.07.02.
The principal timber trees readily eligible for Victorian Industrial Culture, issued by the Council of the Acclimation Society, in 1871.
3
Probably B71.06.03, which was the separately issued version of B71.06.02.
Select plants (exclusive of timber trees) readily eligible for Victorian Industrial Culture, issued by the Council of the Acclimation Society in 1872.
4
Probably B72.07.01, which was the separately issued version of B72.13.02.
Of none of these I have any copies left, altho' a large number were printed on my private expense and gratuitously distributed. But on application to the Institutions, who issued these essays, copies could likely be obtained.
Besides these some other documents of mine are printed in the Exhibition volumes of 1854, 1862, 1867, 1870, of which copies could likely yet be got from the public Library.
5
The Offical catalogue of the Melbourne Exhibition 1854, in connexion with the Paris Exhibition 1855 contains no essays; there are lists of specimens exhibited by M on pp. 22 and 23. For the other exhibitions listed by M, see B61.13.06, B67.13.02 &c, B70.13.03.
I avail myself of this opportunity to recommend, that a special sum may be provided on the additional estimate for a reprint in connected form with new notes of these local essays, as the information contained in them is worthy of far more extended diffusion than it has hitherto received even with large aid out of my slender private means; but it would be impossible or impracticable to effect the reprint of several hundred pages without a special vote, should this proposition receive favorable consideration.
I have the honor to be,
Sir, your obedient servant
Ferd. von Mueller.
6
See also M to T. Ware, 26 June 1874 (in this edition as 74-06-26a).