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Ferdinand von Mueller to the Agricultural and Horticultural Society of India, 1879-02. 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/1870-9/1879/79-02-00-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

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Letter not found. For the text given here, see ‘Monthly Proceedings of the Society’, Journal of the Agricultural and Horticultural Society of India , 1879, p. x. The text appears in the proceedings for the meeting of 27 March 1879, in a report of correspondence received. The item is dated to February 1879 as the latest likely date that the letter could have been sent, to be noticed at this meeting. It is introduced as a letter ‘From Baron F. von Mueller, applying for seed of Reana luxurians . As yet in two places only of Queensland have the seeds ripened, though given to many parties. The demand for the seed is very great in such an extensive country as Australia.’
I will send you more seeds of Festuca dives, as soon as they are ripe again; also I will try to obtain for you the seeds of
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, but in the present state of trouble in New Caledonia, it may not be possible to get them readily. I am glad that the Indian Government, through the action of Sir Andrew Clarke, intends to republish my "select plants."
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B80.13.07. See L. Tupper to M, 2 November 1878.
A copy with extensive additional notes will go to Calcutta by this post. The work ought to be of very great use to the whole of Upper India, and ought to serve also particularly the Indian Forest Department.