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Ferdinand von Mueller to the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 1885-10-31. 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/1880-9/1885/85-10-31-final.odt>, accessed June 17, 2026

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MS not found. For the text given here of what was almost certainly a telegram, see Linnean Society of New South Wales (1885), p. 2, where it is introduced as follows: 'The following congratulatory message was read from Baron Von Mueller, of Melbourne'. The dedication ceremony of the new hall was held on 31 October 1885, and the item is dated to that following M's usual practice with such greetings, and on the assumption that it was a telegram.
My best felicitation at festival for inaugurating new Linnean Hall raised by Hon. Mr. Macleay as an Australian Mæcenas