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Physical location:

ML MSS.562, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney. 87.04.19a

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Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to Edward Ramsay, 1887-04-19 [87.04.19a]. 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/1880-9/1887/87-04-19a-final.odt>, accessed June 4, 2026

19/4/87
It is not absolutely necessary, dear Dr Ramsay, that printed forms should be used for proposing candidates at the L.S.
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Linnean Society, London.
I have no such forms at present. You have now many FLS in N.S.W., and you can always obtain Dr Woolls' signature. But if at any time you wish the addition of my name to the signatures, as that of the now Senior for Australia, it will be gladly given.
Regardfully
your
Ferd von Mueller
I have not yet given up the hope, that through your persevering zeal the fruit and other propagation-organs of the will be discovered.