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Ferdinand von Mueller to the Agricultural and Horticultural Society of India, 1879-04 [79.04.00b]. 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/1870-9/1879/79-04-00b-final.odt>, accessed June 4, 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. xv. The text appears in the proceedings for the meeting of 22 May 1879, in a report of correspondence received. The item is dated to April 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 Ferd. von Mueller on the subject of
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(Euchlaena) luxurians ’.
Let me thank you for your kindness, in forwarding so liberal a supply of seeds of the
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.
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See M to the Agricultural and Horticultural Society of India, February 1879 (in this edition as 79-02-00).
This enables me to push this plant further through Australia than I could do 2 or 3 years ago. I have sent for seeds of
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to the fern tree gullies of our mountains, the nearest place to get them being 40 miles distant; I hope to have them for the next mail. The seeds of
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s I have ordered from Queensland. Australia being a continent almost as large as Europe, I need hardly say that for some years we can never get too much seed of such a superb grass as the Teosinté [
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] for distribution.
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[ ] in the original publication. The Secretary of the Society 'stated he had despatched a further and larger supply of the
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seed'. The proceedings for this meeting also recorded receipt from M of ‘Seeds of Eucalyptus Barleyana [typesetter’s error for E. baileyana?], and of a thorny melon bush, (Acanthosicyos horrida)’.