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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington, Archives, MU000139/001/0001: inwards correspondence, 1871-1883. 80.03.22aPreferred Citation:
Ferdinand von Mueller to James Hector, 1880-03-22 [80.03.22a]. 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/1880-9/1880/80-03-22a-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026
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Annotated
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4367
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and
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Baron Von Mueller | Tender for Kauri Seeds
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. Annotated by Hector:
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Mr Cooper, Can this
request be granted. If so Mr. Gore
will prepare the notice for the Gazette. | J. Hector | 8/4/80
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. Annotated by the
Colonial
Under-Secretary, G. S. Cooper:
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Certainly, please prepare notice for Gazette | G. S. Cooper | Apl. 12. 80.
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Further annotation:
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Mr Gore | Notice prepared for Gazette | [J Didgbury] | 10/4/80
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22/3/80.
Allow mw, dear Dr Hector, to ask from you a favor in your official capacity. Could
you kindly call in the N. Z. Gov. Gazette for a tender for fourty pounds (40 lb) of
seeds of your native Kauri-pine, fresh of the season and carefully collected and dried.
If any tender should prove fair, I shall accept it.
Regardfully your
Ferd. von Mueller.
Of course, the tender must be for clean seeds, not cones.
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A draft of the notice for the Gazette, annotated
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Gazetted 18.4.80
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s letter:
Tender for the Supply of Kauri Seeds.
Colonial Museum
Wellington 13th April 1880
Tenders will be received up to noon of Friday April 30th, for the supply of forty
pounds weight of Kauri Pine Seed of this season, carefully collected and dried.
Tenders to be addressed to Dr Hector, Colonial Museum, Wellington, and endorsed “Tender
for Kauri Seed.”
The lowest or any Tender not necessarily accepted.
J. Hector