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88.02.00d

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Ferdinand von Mueller to the Australasian Medical Gazette, 1888-02 [88.02.00d]. 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/1880-9/1888/88-02-00d-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

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Letter not found. The text given here is from Australasian medical gazette, March 1888, p. 144 (vol. 7). It is dated to February as the latest likely date that it could have sent for it to be published in this issue.
[We have been requested by Baron Sir Ferdinand von Mueller, K.C.M.G., F.R.S., M.D., etc., Government Botanist in Melbourne, to ask our readers, and especially those residing in the interior of Australia, to favour him, by packet post, with small branches of indigenous fruit-bearing or flowering plants, to enable him to enquire into and report upon their medicinal virtues. Baron von Mueller states that most of the discoveries in the vegetable kingdom during the last centuries have been made by members of the profession, and he trusts that medical men in Australia will not be behindhand in assisting him in the investigation of the physiological properties of the Australian Flora. Any significant assistance rendered will be acknowledged by him in any future publication that may be issued on this subject.]
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A similar appeal was published in the January 1887 number of the Chemist and druggist of Australasia, p. 2, presumably on the basis of a similar request. See M to Chemist and druggist of Australasia, December 1886 (in this edition as 86-12-00k).