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Carton no. 2, Melbourne, consulat, Serie A, Centre des Archives Diplomatiques, Nantes. 87.12.17a

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Ferdinand von Mueller to Paul Maistre, 1887-12-17 [87.12.17a]. 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/1880-9/1887/87-12-17a-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

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MS annotation by [Maistre]: 'Répondu à M. Von Mueller le 20-12-87' [Replied to M. von Mueller 20.12.87]. Letter not found. For a printed version of this letter, see Home & Maroske (1997), p. 17.
Melbourne,
17. Dec. 1887.
Mons. P. Maistre,
Acting Consul General of France
In reply to your communication of the 12. Dec.,
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Letter not found.
honored Sir, I beg to state, that I will endeavour to obtain yet this season the grains of the two and of other nutritious grasses and also salt-bushes and other rural plants, fit for the more arid pastoral regions of Northern Africa. It will be necessary to have these seeds collected purposely, and I have made some arrangements now in this respect, without involving the Consulate into expenditure. When any of the grains arrive, they will be successively sent to you.
I beg of you, to assure his Excellency the Minister of foreign affaires, that I will be particularly happy to aid on this and any other occasion in the rural development of the great French possessions in Africa, so far as I can from here, and that I hope his Excellency will in this respect through you, his able representative here, at any time command services.
I have the honor to be, Sir, your very obedient
Ferd. von Mueller