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O78/7454, unit 1034, VPRS 3991/P inward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria. 78.07.23

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Ferdinand von Mueller to Graham Berry, 1878-07-23. 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/1870-9/1878/78-07-23-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

Melbourne
23/7/78.
The honorable Graham Berry, M.L.A.,
Chief Secretary.
Sir
Learning that the 30 copies of vol. VII of the Flora of Australia by Mr Bentham & myself
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Bentham (1863-78), vol. 7.
have arrived through the office of the Agent-General, I have the honor to suggest, that of these copies, to which the Victorian Government was entitled in return for the subsidy to this work, a distribution may be made as follows.
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Marginal note in an unknown hand: 'Pub Liby Melb. Geelong Ballt [Ballarat] Sandhurst [now Bendigo]'.
His Excellency the Governor.
The Office of the honorable the Chief Secretary
The Parliaments Library
The University Library
The Royal Society of Victoria
The Medical Society of Victoria
The Board of Pharmacy
The pharmaceutic Society of Victoria
The Chemists Assistants Society of Melbourne.
Baron Von Mueller.
The Lands Department.
The botanic Museum.
The Library of the Executive Council.
The Rev. Dr Woolls, Richmond, New South Wales.
Mr P. O'Shanesy near Rockhampton, Queensland.
Mons. Thozet, jun. Rockhampton
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Anthelme Thozet died on 31 May 1878. His wife and son Auguste continued the experimental garden he had established, from which he had corresponded with M.
Inspector Armit, Dunrobin, George's town, Queensland.
Mr Eugene Fitzalan, Port Denison, Queensland
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All the names on the list have been ticked, presumably to indicate that they had been approved.
(the five last mentioned Gentlemen being extensive contributors to our collections).
If the remaining copies were placed into the Gov. Printers Stores, they would be available for any future purposes.
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MS annotation by J. Ferres, Government Printer, on 16 August: 'Twenty copies forwarded as requested'.
I have the honor to be, Sir,
your obedient servant
Ferd. von Mueller,
Gov. Botanist.