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86.00.00d

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Ferdinand von Mueller to Walter Froggatt, 1886 [86.00.00d]. 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/1880-9/1886/86-00-00d-final.odt>, accessed June 19, 2026

1
Letters not found. The text given here is from 'Travels in North Queensland', by W. W. Froggatt, Bendigo advertiser, 2 March 1887, p. 2. Froggatt had arrived in Cairns on 3 April 1886.
[I had received several letters from Baron Von Mueller, Government Botanist of Victoria, as to the practicability of ascending Mount Bellenden tier,
2
Printer's error for Ker?
the highest point in Queensland, 4,300 feet, so in the last week of May his collector, Mr. Sayer, came up to join me, but returned again to Cairns, and from thence to the Barron River.]
3
See Sayer (1887) and Lavarack (2015).