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Auckland Institute and Museum. 82.02.16a

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Ferdinand von Mueller to Thomas Cheeseman, 1882-02-16 [82.02.16a]. 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/1880-9/1882/82-02-16a-final.odt>, accessed June 4, 2026

16/2/82
It is very kind of you, dear Mr Cheeseman, to send me the fruit of
Persoonia Tora

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. The specimens of drupes will answer my purposes very well. Have you any good fruit-specimens of
Sporadanthus

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at hand?
I am quite ashamed to tax you & other friends, without doing something in return for you; but really I have had for a long time past not leisure even for my own literary progressive work, as I had to give up a large share of my time for fully 12 months as one of the jurors (in the chemical and 2 other branches) and as one of the general Commissioners for the Exhibition (international).
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International Exhibition, Melbourne, 1880-1.
I have thus not made up any collections of spare specimens for a long time; but as gradually the accumulated & postponed work of my Department is cleared off, I shall also attend to the distribution of spare-specimens of plants, and you shall not be forgotten. The
Poranthera alpina

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, sent by you, is very interesting. In the Australian Alps I saw P. microphylla right up to the snowline, but may have passed P. alpina.
Of course, you receive the volumes of the R.S.
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Royal Society.
of N.S Wales? In the new one I have a systematic index of the 2120 plant-genera, now known as represented in Australia.
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B82.13.08.
Regardfully your
Ferd. von Mueller