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Minute book 8, p. 160, Borough Council records, Warrnambool, Victoria. 76.07.00b

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Ferdinand von Mueller to Henry Read, 1876-07 [76.07.00b]. 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/1870-9/1876/76-07-00b-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

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Letter not found; item is a summary in the minutes of the meeting of the Borough Council held on 25 July 1876. For other summaries of this letter, see Warrnambool examiner, 26 July 1876, p. 2, and Warrnambool standard, 28 July 1876, p. 4.
[Dr Mueller requesting to be furnished with samples of the seeds sent by the Chief Secretary.]
2
The Under Secretary, W. H. Odgers, transmitted to the Warrnambool Borough Council on 12 July 1876 three cases of seed procured by the Agent General in England, containing grass and other plant seed thought to be suitable for arresting sand drifts. One half of the seed was to be used by Warrnambool and one half by Belfast [Port Fairy]: 'I may add that the Government Botanist has been requested to give the Councils the benefit of his advice should they feel desirous of consulting him on any point'. The seed included: 'Sea Lyme-grass Elymus arenarius, Moram or Bent Grass Psamma arenaria, Sand Lupin Lupinus arboreus, Sand Lupin Lupinnus albiflorus'. On receipt of the seed, C. A. Cramer, the Mayor of Warrnambool, noted that one of the packets received had not been named in Odgers's letter, and one that was mentioned therein had not come to hand (Warrnambool standard, 28 July 1876, p. 4).
In response to M's letter, the minutes record: 'Resolved on the motion of Cr. Hider seconded by Cr. Harris, "that 7lbs each description be forwarded and Dr Mueller asked to give any information he may have with reference to the "Arundo Arenaria"'. See also H. Read to M, 3 August 1876.