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RB MSS M1, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. 77.02.03
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William Bacchus to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1877-02-03. 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/1870-9/1877/77-02-03-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026
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MS found with a specimen of Vicia sativa ssp. nigra (MEL 2097120), collected on 3 February 1877.
Many thanks for sending the volume of select plants
it goes far to supply a want always existing and at the present time increasing it
will be very useful for schools and to persons like myself who cultivate as an instructive
recreation any new plants likely to be of use I wish you could have given some illustrations
but that could hardly be expected I am often troubled to find out species of plants
sent to me under common names from want of illustrations to refer to as an instance
I have been trying in vain to discover what species the enclosed plant belongs to
the seeds of which with others of similar kinds I got some years ago from the Melbourne
bot gardens this sort is hardy quick growing and bearing well but the peculiar form
of the leaves puzzle me it was labelled chicklings I should like to know the proper
name. I have been reminded that I have forgotten to thank you in the name of my servants
for the books you so kindly sent after your visit last winter I thought my Son would
have taken the message for me when he called on you as he told me he had promised
to do before starting for Queensland but it was fated he was not to start as he broke
his leg at a skating rink a few days after coming to Melbourne, he is now here all
right again and hopes to make a fresh start in a week or two I read in the Leader
that you have issued an additional part of dried specimens of native plants and hope
the
specimens were sufficient.
When you get seeds of the tussock grass please recalled how desirous I am to try
it in this climate With our united kind regards
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B76.12.04.
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Walter K Bissell, letter to the editor, 'Third fascicle of educational plants', Leader (Melbourne), 9 December 1876, p. 7.
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If Bacchus had supplied specimens of the water fern
for the third and final fascicle of M’s ‘educational collection’ of dried plant specimens,
issued in late 1876, the effort was in vain because the genus was not included in
the collection; see ‘Educational Collections Distributed’, RB MSS M83, Library, Royal
Botanic Gardens Melbourne.
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I remain
Yours faithfully
W. H. Bacchus.
Peerewur
3rd Feb 1877
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Bacchus's homestead near Bacchus Marsh, Vic.
Baron von Mueller