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B84/6507, unit 44, VPRS 3992/P inward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria. 84.07.31Preferred Citation:
Ferdinand von Mueller to Graham Berry, 1884-07-31. 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/1880-9/1884/84-07-31-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026
Melbourne,
31 July 1884.
To the honorable Graham Berry, M.L.A.,
Chief Secretary.
Sir,
I have the honor to solicit, that Dr. Henri van Heurck, Director of the botanic Garden
of Antwerpen (Anvers), Belgium, may be supplied with a set of the Decades (nine) of
the Eucalyptography in reciprocation of the gift of a splendid illustrated publication
on Diatomeae, received from him for my office.
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Van Heurck (1885). Part 1, the Atlas of 138 plates, was issued in six fascicles between
1880 and 1883. By the time of this letter, part 2, a ‘Table alphabétique’, had been
issued in May 1883 (TL2), and might have been received by M; part 3, the text volume
plus three more plates, was not issued until May 1885. M’s request was forwarded to
the Premier's Office on 1 August (No. 2174, VPRS 1164, vol. 2, Public Record Office,
Victoria), and the Under Secretary, E. Thomson, replied on 9 September: 'Returned,
by direction, to the Honorable the Chief Secretary. The Government Printer has been
instructed to forward the decades of Eucalyptography to the Director of the Antwerp
Botanic Gardens, through the Trustees of the Public Library. The Trustees have also
been requested to state, in forwarding the books, that they are presented at the instance
of Baron von Mueller'. This news was forwarded the next day to M, who returned the
file 'with best thanks' on 11 September 1884.
I have the honor to be,
Sir, your obedient servant
Ferd. von Mueller.