Document information

Physical location:

RB MSS M94, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. 86.09.23

Preferred Citation:

James Edgar to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1886-09-23. 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/1880-9/1886/86-09-23-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

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MS found with a specimen of Cerbera dumicola (MEL 1515485). MS annotation by M: 'Answ. 11/12/86. F.v.M.' Letter not found.
Botanic Gardens
Rockhampton
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Qld.
Sept 23rd 1886
My Dear Baron
I enclose shipping note
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Enclosure not found.
for the case of fossils mentioned in my last.
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Letter not found.
in a small bag in it you will find a seed sent me by one of the Government surveyors, who picked it up some four or five hundred mile inland
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inland is underlined in pencil and annotated by M: 'north?'
from here. he is very anxious to know the name of it. will you be kind enough to furnish me with it and I will forward it to him
yours faithfully
J. S. Edgar