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No. 818, vol. 1875 H, VPRS 1168/P inward correspondence registers, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria. 75.01.24a

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Ferdinand von Mueller to Robert Ramsay, 1875-01-24 [75.01.24a]. 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/1870-9/1875/75-01-24a-final.odt>, accessed June 9, 2026

1
Letter not found; item is a register entry only, of a requisition dated 24 January 1875.
[For all of his works for the Societé Imperiale of Moscow]
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This requisition was approved and forwarded to the Government Printer's Office on 27 January 1875. It is not known what volumes were sent. They are likely to have included vols 3 – 7 of his Fragmenta (B63.04.06, B65.02.09, B67.02.07, B69.08.01, B72.02.08); in M to J. Hector, 4 June 1871 (in this edition as 71-06-04a), M stated that vols 1 and 2 'cannot any longer be obtained', but he later requested a copy of vol. 1 from the Gavernment Printer in M to J. MacPherson, 26 May 1876. Other works evidently still available were B62.03.03, The plants indigenous to the Colony of Victoria , vol . 1 ; B64.10.02, Vegetation of the Chatham-Islands; 64.10.03, Analytical drawings of Australian mosses; B65.02.06, The plants indigenous to the Colony of Victoria. Lithograms; B74.13.07, Observations on new vegetable fossils of the auriferous drifts. It is very unlikely that the list would have included individual fascicles of Fragmenta or Vegetable fossils intended for later bound volumes, nor is likely that items in Parliamentary papers would be considered as 'his works' by M, although it is possible that he might have included the pamphlet B60.13.12, Essay on the plants collected by Mr. Eugene Fitzalan, during Lieut. Smith ' s expedition to the estuary of the Burdekin, and B71.12.13, Forest culture in its relation to industrial pursuits , a version of a lecture also published by a commercial publisher.