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79.02.00c

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Ferdinand von Mueller to the Medical Society of Victoria, 1879-02 [79.02.00c]. 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/1870-9/1879/79-02-00c-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

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Letter not found. The text given here is from the report of the 5 February 1879 meeting of the Medical Society of Victoria, in 'News of the day', Age (Melbourne), 7 February 1879, p. 2. The item is dated to February 1879 as the latest it could have been written to be read at the meeting.
[The hon. secretary read a letter from Baron von Mueller, in which he made mention of the excellent effects in South Carolina of the Eucalyptus Globulus, by means of which in certain districts fevers, previously endemic, had been exterminated.]
Eucalyptus Globulus