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RSA/B.13(20), Royal Society of Tasmania Archives, Hobart. 83.04.02

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Ferdinand von Mueller to James Barnard, 1883-04-02. 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/1880-9/1883/83-04-02-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

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An abstract of this letter is given in the minutes of the Monthly Meeting of Council, 9 April 1883: 'From Baron von Mueller re collecting plants in the less frequented parts of the Colony' (RSA/A/5, minute book, Royal Society of Tasmania Archives, Hobart).
2/4/83
It is very kind of you, dear Mr Barnard, to send me a copy of your new part of the R.S. transactions,
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Report of the Royal Society of Tasmania for the year 1882 (Hobart, 1883). The Royal Society of Tasmania's index of outgoing letters (RSA/B/1 letter index, Royal Society of Tasmania Archives, Hobart) lists a letter sent to M on 28 March 1883 'With copy of Report & asking for a paper for reading this session'.
for which we all are doubly indebted to you, as the Hon. Secr. of the Society and as the Editor and publisher at your own excellent Establishment. It needs not my assurance, that I would be happy to respond to your call of contributing again to the new or rather another litterary issue of the Society. But altho' I have just finished the Vasculares of the Census of Australian plants,
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B83.03.04.
and thus my hands are somewhat freer for other work, I have no material that would be of special Tasmanian interest for a new contribution to the Society's publication. In vain have I asked many residents there to send occasionally a few dried plants by post from less frequented localities. The year 1882 has been the least fruitful of all for adding to the Flora; Mr Kaiser
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Heinrich Wilhelm Ferdinand Kayser.
kindly sent some specimens from the bot. unexplored regions of Mt Bishop,
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Bishop Peak, Tas?
but they were lost on the way; he may send more yet, and thus afford data for an other record; so it may be in King's and Flinders's Island. Surely the surveyors in the N.W. might put a few specimens into their empty provision-bags on return-journeys. The "Census,"
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sent to the Society, will show, how much Tasmania is interested in this also
Regardfully your
Ferd. von Mueller
Best salutation to Dr Barnard
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Barnard's son, Charles Barnard?
when next you write him.