Document information

Physical location:

RB MSS M1, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. 80.06.25

Preferred Citation:

William Shann to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1880-06-25. 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/1880-9/1880/80-06-25-final.odt>, accessed June 9, 2026

Botanical Reserve
Bowen
Port Denison
Queensland
June 25 /80
To the Baron V. Mueller
Sir
I beg to submit to you the seeds and specimens you require. The grasses are not nothing like what they were a few months ago. I will send you my whole collection to be named.
And at the close of the Exhibition
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International Exhibition, Melbourne, 1880-1. Shann exhibited 60 varieties of Queensland grass seeds, for which he received a 'Second order of merit' certificate (International Exhibition (1880-1881: Melbourne) (1882), p. 407.
you may
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the whole or any part of the collection and keep them for any purpose you may require.
I will number them all and keep a duplicate so that you may send me the names for the next collection I may make.
Thanking you for past favour I will gather anything specimens of Fungi Sedges as you require at my earliest opportunity and forward them to you.
I beg to remain Sir
Yours obediently
Wm Shann