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83.08.00

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Ferdinand von Mueller to the West Australian, 1883-08. 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/1880-9/1883/83-08-00-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

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Letter not found. The text given here is from 'Occasional notes', West Australian, 31 August 1883, p. 2.
[Sir Ferdinand v. Mueller, in a recent communication, speaks of the value which 'Black-boy' resin would prove as an article of export from Western Australia, calculated as it is to supersede Benzol resin for varnish manufacture and other purposes. Sir Ferdinand encloses a letter from a gentleman in Gippsland
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Vic. Letter not found.
who states that near Braidwood
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NSW.
he came across a lot of men gathering the gum who assured him that its value in Sydney was £80 per ton, and that they were making from 20s. to 30s. per diem gathering and selling to a local buyer. No colony of the group, probably, could export this resin on so large a scale ae
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Typographical error for as?
Western Australia.]