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E74/13681, unit 747, VPRS 3991/P inward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria. 74.10.26Preferred Citation:
Ferdinand von Mueller to Thomas Ware, 1874-10-26. 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/1870-9/1874/74-10-26-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026
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26/10/74.
Th. Webb Ware Esqr.
Acting Undersecretary.
Sir.
I have the honor to acknowledge with best thanks the receipt of part 1 & 2 of Major
Beddome's Indian flora sylvatica
and of part X of his icon. plant. Ind. or.
considerately presented by the hon. Mr. Ramsay;
and I have placed these publications in the Library of the botanic Museum.
1
Beddome (1869-74).
2
Beddome (1874), part 10. The work was issued in 15 parts. This part is dated 1873 (Turner (2012), p. 304). The part had not arrived in Melbourne when Part 11 was received,
and was requested from Madras by the Chief Secretary's Office (T. Ware to M, 21 March
1874 (in this edition as 74-03-21a)).
3
i.e. the Chief Secretary, Robert Ramsay, to whose office the books had been sent.
I have the honor to be,
Sir, your obedient servant
Ferd. von Mueller.