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86.01.00

Preferred Citation:

the Ballarat School of Mines to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1886-01. 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/1880-9/1886/86-01-00-final.odt>, accessed June 19, 2026

1
Letter not found. The text given here is from a report of a meeting of the administrative council of the School of Mines held on 13 January 1886, in Ballarat star, 16 January 1886, p. 4.
[The registrar was instructed to make application to Baron von Mueller for a portion of the collection of New Guinea specimens contributed by the Royal Geographical Society.
2
The Royal Geographic Society of Australasia, Victorian Branch, had received plants from New Guinea collected by Henry Forbes; see M to E. Strickland, 10 October 1885.
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