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Ferdinand von Mueller to the Gardeners' Improvement Society of South Australia, 1880-05 [80.05.00c]. 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/1880-9/1880/80-05-00c-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

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Letter not found. The text given here is from a report of the meeting of the Gardeners' Improvement Society held on 5 June 1880, Evening journal (Adelaide), 7 June 1880, p. 3.
[Baron F. von Müeller, of Melbourne, Government Botanist, wrote, acknowledging and accepting the hon. membership conferred upon him a short time ago,
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The date of conferring has not been established, nor has a letter announcing it been found. In a report of the Society's meeting published in South Australian chronicle and weekly mail, 12 June 1880, p. 23, M is reported as thanking the society for electing him an 'honorary corresponding member'.
and forwarded a donation of books to the library, comprising three decades of his "Eucalyptographia,"
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B79.13.11, Decades 1-3?
" Plants Indigenous to Australia,"
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B62.03.03?
and others, and promised to send some others at a future time.]