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RBG Kew, Kew Correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1882-1890, f. 196. 86.08.04

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Ferdinand von Mueller to William Thiselton-Dyer, 1886-08-04. 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/1880-9/1886/86-08-04-final.odt>, accessed June 4, 2026

4/8/86
I have to thank you for an excellent suppy
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supply?
of fresh fruits of
Chamaerops Ritchieana

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, dear Mr Dyer, which - as their vitality seems well retained - will doubtless add to the treasures of many a Garden here.
I send you a few fruits just fresh received of the subtropic Central Australian Livistona; it may be L. Leichhardtii, not L. Mariae of West Australia, which has larger but also globular fruits. The Central Austral. species is geographically quite isolated.
I wonder, how my giant
Todea

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looked at the Exhibition; you never mentioned in your letters. I trust, that the models of
Crinum flaccidum

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and
Telopea oreades

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still turned up. The latter will show well the differences from T. truncata.
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M exhibited these wax models and 36 of ‘Victorian Fungs’ in Class XI, ‘General application of the arts of drawing and modelling’ at the Colonial and Indian Exhibition, London, 1886. The modeller is not named. (Official Catalogue, second edition, p. 188).
Regardfully
your
Fer von Mueller