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83.00.00d

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Robert Collie to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1883 [83.00.00d]. 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/1880-9/1883/83-00-00d-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

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Letter not found. The text given here is from 'News of the week', Sydney morning herald, 20 August 1884, p. 9. It is dated to 1893 as the likely latest likely date that the specimens could have been received by M, sent to Halle, examined and a response received.
[The Rev R. Collie, F.L.S., of Newtown,
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Sydney.
lately received from the New Hebrides some specimens of the flora of the islands, gathered for him by Mrs. Braithwaite.
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Presumably Sarah Hannah Braithwaite (née Merryweather) (c.1827-1895) about whom no further details are known, the wife of Captain George Braithwaite (1824-1917) who himself was a collector for M in the Pacific and after whom Aristotelia braithwaitei was named in B81.09.02.
He sent a parcel of mosses to Baron von Mueller, at Melbourne, who, finding a number of them to be new, sent them to a famous German professor, Dr. C. Mueller.
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i.e. Carl (Karl) Müller. Letter not found.
The latter has classified and named the new plants. Two of them he named after Mr. Collie,
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Species not identified.
in recognition of his interest in botanical science.]