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P84/3313, unit 48, VPRS 1163/P1 inward correspondence, VA 1123 Premier, Public Record Office, Victoria. 84.11.09

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Ferdinand von Mueller to Graham Berry, 1884-11-09. 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/1880-9/1884/84-11-09-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

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This letter was first registered as B84/10309 in the Chief Secretary's Department, then referred to the Premier.
Melbourne,
9/11/84
The honorable Graham Berry &c
M.L.A., Chief Secretary.
Sir.
I have the honor to solicit, that as now the 10th Decade of the Eucalyptography
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B84.11.02.
has been finally issued, a copy may be forwarded to each of the institutions or Gentlemen, mentioned in the byefollowing list in return for publications or for botanical collections continuously received from them by us here.
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The list accompanying M's letter was written by G. Luehmann. See also E. Thomas to M, 24 December 1884.
The list is nearly the same as that of the recipients of the 9th Decade,
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List in M to G. Berry. 21 March 1884.
the slight alterations made arising either from death of former cecients
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recipients? The word is broken at the end of a line.
or from discontinuance of sendings of previous correspondents.
I have the honor to be,
Sir, your obedient servant
Ferd. von Mueller.
Proposed recipients of the 10th decade of the Eucalyptography from whom publications are received in interchange.
Academy of Natural Science Philadelphia
Academy of Science Goettingen
Academy of Science Munich
Acclimation Society Paris
Acclimation Society Palermo
Agricultural Society Algiers
Agri & Horticultural Society Calcutta
Chemical Society Vienna
Bailey, F. M. Brisbane.
Baillon, Professor Paris
Beccari, Dr Florence
Board of Health Washington
Botanical Society Copenhagen
" " Edinburgh
" " Hamburg
" " Berlin
Britten, J. London
Candolle, Professor Geneva
Caruel, Professor Florence
Cooper, Prof. Elw. Santa Barbara Calif.
Cornu, Prof. (Mus. d'Histoire Natur.) Paris
Cosson, Dr. Paris
Davis, G. Detroit
Dept. of Agriculture Washington
Eichler, Prof. Berlin
Editor of the Inquirer Perth
Ed. Albany Mail Albany
Ed. Queenslander Brisbane
Engler, Prof. Breslau
Fitzgerald, R. D. Sydney
Forest Department Adelaide
Fisher, W. (Indian Forester) Roorkee
Forrest, Hon. J. Perth
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Fraser, Hon. M. Perth deleted and note added by the Government Printer, J. Ferres: Col Secy supplied.
Gardeners Gazette Erfurt
Geological Department Washington
Goeze, Dr. Greifswald
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Govt. Statist Melbourne deleted and note added: already supplied.
Gray, Professor Asa Boston
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Heurck, Dr. H. Antwerp deleted and note added: Director Bot Gardens supplied. The Director of the Antwerp Botanic Garden was in fact Henri Van Heurck .
Henriques, Professor Coimbra
Hochstift (Academy) Frankfurt
Hooker, Sir Joseph Kew
Howitt, A. W. Sale
Husemann, Prof. Goettingen
Journal of Science Dunedin
Just, Professor Carlsruhe
King, Dr. Geo. Calcutta
Lange, Professor Copenhagen
Linnean Society London
Linnean Society Sydney
Luerssen, Prof. Leipzig
Masters, Dr. Maxwell London
Maximowicz, Prof. St Petersburg
Medical Society Melbourne
Meehan, Professor Philadelphia
Millardet, Prof. Bordeaux
Moore, Chas. Sydney
Morren, Prof. Liége
Natural History Society Mexico
Naudin, Prof Antibes
New Zealand Institute Wellington
O'Shanesy, P. Rockhampton
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Pharmaceutical Society Melbourne deleted and note added: Already supplied.
Physiographic Society Lund
Planchon, Professor Montpellier
Regel, Dr. St Petersburg
Renard, Dr. Moscow
Royal Colonial Institute London
Royal Society London
Royal Society Melbourne
Royal Society Adelaide
Royal Society Brisbane
Royal Society Hobart
Royal Society Sydney
Royal Asiatic Society Singapore
Scheffler, Dr. Brunswick
Senkenberg Society Frankfurt
Simmonds, P L London
Smithsonian Institute Washington
Society for Culture Breslau
Society of Nat. History Butzow
Society of Nat. History Stuttgart
Tepper, O. Adelaide
Treub, Dr. Batavia
Trelease, Professor Detroit
Todaro, Prof. Palermo
Uhleworm, Dr. Cassel
Wawra, Dr. Vienna
Woolls, Rev. Dr. Richmond
Wittmack, Prof. Berlin
Warren, Colonel San Francisco
Proposed recipients from whom collections have been received
Edgar, J. Rockhampton; Fawcett, C., Sydney; Ficalho, Prof. Lisbon; Krichauff, F., Adelaide; Thozet, Mrs. Rockhampton; Baker, J. G., London; Shann, F. Port Denison; Wuerfel, A., Bourke.
9/11/84. F.v.M.
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The Under Secretary, T. Wilson, submitted M's list for the approval of the Premier, J. Service, on 12 November 1884. On 21 November the Secretary to the Premier, E. Thomas, asked: 'Will the Government Printer please state whether any distribution of the 10th Decade has already taken place, and if so under what instructions and to whom?'. The Government Printer, J. Ferres, replied on 27 November: 'Copies of the 10th Decade have been distributed, as per attached list'. Thomas reiterated on 1 December: 'The Government Printer has not replied to the latter part of my minute'. Ferres responded on 2 December: 'The answer is given in the heading of the list', to which Thomas replied on the same day: 'Instructions were given that presentations were to be made only on the Premiers authority and there is no record of any such authority being issued for these presentations'. Ferres replied on 5 December: 'The 10th Decade completes the work and in conversation with Mr Thomas, I pointed out this fact; and understood that the supply would be made on the authorities already in existence. It was, of course, understood that no new presentations would be made without the Premier's authority.' Service approved M's list on 16 December.
An example of the letter from the Public Library dated 10 January 1885 has been found glued to the verso of the front free endpaper of a bound copy of the complete work at the library of Unité Experimentale Villa Thuret of the French Institut N ational de la R echerche A gronomique, Antibes. The main text is a hectograph copy made onto a page with the printed letterhead ,  'PUBLIC LIBRARY, MUSEUMS, AND NATIONAL GALLERY OF VICTORIA:
Sir
I have the honour to forward you herewith the work mentioned below. This work is presented by the Honourable the Premier to
you
at the request of Baron Von Mueller, Government Botanist of Victoria.
I have the honour to be ,
Sir,
Your obedient servant
Geo[...] Brockway
pro Librarian
Professor Naudin,
Antibes
It is bound with decades in order, with the covers as issued removed except that of the first decade. The individual title pages each have the stamp 'Centre de Provence à Antibes', the name of the Ministry of Agriculture's Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique at the Villa Thuret from 1927 to 1946, although this could have been added when cataloging during that period. The verso of the cover of Decade I has a partial label of C. Klincksieck, a Parisian publisher and booksleller, suggsting that that firm may have supplied that decade.