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75.00.00a

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Ferdinand von Mueller to Régulus Carlotti, 1875 [75.00.00a]. 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/1870-9/1875/75-00-00a-final.odt>, accessed May 15, 2026

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Letter not found. The text given here is from a letter written by Carlotti to the Société d'acclimatation, Paris, read at the meeting of 18 February 1876 (Bulletin de la Société d'acclimatation, series 3, vol. 3. pp. 111-3). The letter discusses Carlotti's experience with Eucalyptus at Ajaccio, Corsica. The extract given here is from p. 113. Carlotti ended his letter with a request for advice from the Society on the utility of this species for forestry.
The reported letter from M to Carlotti is difficult to date, but it was probably no later than mid-1875, given that the seeds were planted and germinated.
[Je dois vous informer, en terminant, que M. le baron von Mueller, du Jardin botanique de Melbourne, m'a fait la gracieuseté de m'adresser une assez bonne quantité de graines d'
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. J'ai fait des semis: les graines ont germé; mais j'ignore s'il peut être avantageux de propager cette espèce.]
[In conclusion, I must inform you that Baron von Mueller of the Botanical Garden of Melbourne has had the graciousness to address to me a good quantity of seeds of
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. I did the sowing; the seeds germinated; but I do not know whether it can be advantageous to propagate this species.]