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L77/8587, unit 958, VPRS 3991/P inward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria. 77.07.28

Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to Graham Berry, 1877-07-28. 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/1870-9/1877/77-07-28-final.odt>, accessed June 15, 2026

Melbourne,
28 July 1877.
To the honorable Graham Berry, M.L.A.,
Chief Secretary.
Sir,
I have the honor respectfully to enquire, whether there are any means available to support me to a small extent in the heavy expenditure of getting printed an authorized translation of Wittstein's Chemistry of plants,
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Wittstein (1878), i.e. B78.06.09.
which I have enlarged by notes of my own up to the researches of the present day. A private firm has printed on my cost many sheets or rather several, but I see the expense of the issue would be beyond my private means. It has occurred to me, that your Government might be willing, to aid me in this important contribution towards Australian science by purchasing hundred
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fifty crossed out .
copies at 10/ each (reduced price) for the public institutions of the Colony.
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No such aid was forthcoming and M frequently complained thereafter about how much this project had cost him.
I have the honor to be,
Sir, your very obedient
Ferd. von Mueller.