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P87/1748, unit 107, VPRS 1163/P1 inward correspondence files, VA 672 Premier's Office, Public Record Office, Victoria. 87.05.04a

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Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Liagre to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1887-05-04 [87.05.04a]. 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/1880-9/1887/87-05-04a-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

Bruxelles, le 4 mai 188 7
ACADÉMIE ROYALE
des
sciences, des lettres et des beaux-arts
de belgique
Palais des Académies
Monsieur,
La Bibliothèque de l'Académie vous saura gré de bien vouloir lui compléter la liste de vos ouvrages. A cette fin — conformément à votre lettre du 25 mars — je vous transcris ci-après les titres de ceux de vous ouvrages dont je suis déjà en possession.
Veuillez agréer, Monsieur, l'expression de mes sentiments les plus distingués.
Le Secrétaire perpétuel
J. Liagre
Monsieur le baron F. von Mueller,
botaniste du Gouvernement à Melbourne.
Descript. and illustr. of the Myoporinous plants II
The plants indigenous around Sharks Bay …
Select extra-tropical plants readily eligible for industrial culture …
— new edit.
Index perfectus ad Caroli Linnaei species plantarum …
Notes on a new proteaceous tree.
Systematic census of australian plants … part 1
Observations on new vegetable fossils of the auriferous drift.
Census of the genera of plants … indigenous to Australia
Reports of the mining surveyors and registrars, quarter ended 31 march 1882.
1
MS accompanied by a printed list, presumably taken from a general catalogue of publications, of seven of M's works, numbered 3777 to 3783, namely Fragmenta, 11 vols; Plants indigenous to the colony of Victoria, 2 vols (Thalamiflorae, Lithograms); Vegetation of the Chatham Islands; Analytical drawings of Australian mosses; Select plants (1876 ed.); Native plants of Victoria; Eucalyptographia, Decades 1-4, 6,7.
M forwarded Liagre's letter to the Acting Chief Secretary; see M to C. Pearson, 7 June 1887 (in this edition as 87-06-07a). From there it was forwarded to the Premier's Office on 10 June 1887, and ultimately to the Government Printer and the Librarian, Public Library, who was instructed 'to ask for exchange', 12 August 1887.
Brussels, 4 May 1887
Royal Academy of Sciences,
Letters and Beaux-Arts of Belgium
Palace of the Academies
Sir,
The Library of the Academy would be grateful if you would be kind enough to complete its holding of your works. To this end — in accordance with your letter of 5 March
2
Letter not found.
— I set out below the titles of those of your works that I already have.
3
See the list above.
With the deepest respect,
J. Liagre
Permanent Secretary
Baron F. von Mueller
Government Botanist at Melbourne.