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MU 94, box 4 (3662), Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington. 78.10.10a

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Ferdinand von Mueller to James Hector, 1878-10-10 [78.10.10a]. 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/1870-9/1878/78-10-10a-final.odt>, accessed June 5, 2026

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MS written by G. Luehmann and signed by M. Letter registered at the Geological Survey Office, Wellington, on 26 October 1878.
Melbourne, 10/10/78
Dear Dr Hector
I have to dictate this letter for you from my sickbed, but I wish to acknowledge at once the receipt of volume VIII of the New Zealand Institute which arrived today. This will make my series of this important publication of yours now complete.
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See M to J. Hector, 1 August (in this edition as 78-08-01a) and M to J. Hector, 5 August 1878 (in this edition as 78-08-05b).
I am also under deep obligations to you for transmitting the sections of the Fernstems, which also have recently arrived. Could Mr Buchanan
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John Buchanan (1819-1898).
kindly send to me a specimen of your N. Zealand Zannichellia or
Lepilaena

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See M to J. Buchanan, 30 August 1878. Could …
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is underlined and annotated in the margin: 'Parcel sent on 29/10/78'.
I believe you have both genera there, as I recently found the genuine Zannichellia in Lake King of Gippsland, where it grows in company with
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What kind of book will be the one which your Government intends to issue on industrial plants? and who will be the author? If there is anything that I can send from here, pray command my services.
With kind regards
Yours
Ferd. von Mueller