Ferdinand von Mueller

8/7/78

Allow me to ask you, dear Sir Redmond, whether your grand Library possesses the important catalogue of the scientific papers, which are scattered in prints all over the civilized world and collected into an index form through the R.S. of London.

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Attached to the letter is a printed sheet: 'CATALOGUE OF SCIENTIFIC PAPERS. The six (inserted by hand over 'first three') volumes of the 'Catalogue of Scientific Papers,' (added by hand: '1800-63') compiled and published by the Royal Society of London, are now on sale at the Office of the Royal Society, Burlington House, London; or they can be obtained through any Bookseller. Price each vol. Half-Morocco 28s Cloth 20s.'

If not, it will be one of the most important additions, which can be made to the Melbourne Library.

I was anxious to procure these important volumes myself, but alas! my worldly means admit of such like purchases no more. — These catalogues greatly facilitate reference & to ascertain chronologic sequence of discoveries.

I have merely sent one copy of my English enlarged Edition of Wittsteins Chemistry of plants

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Wittstein (1878), i.e. B78.06.09.

to the public Library, but for any very special case I would spare one or more copies to aid the interchanges of your institution;

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See also M to R. Barry, 13 March 1879 (in this edition as 79-03-13a).

but the issue of this work has cost me £250 out of my private means, and as it absorbed my last wordly

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worldly?

property, it would be unjust to myself to give the work largely away.