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RB MSS M33, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. 88.09.18a

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Ferdinand von Mueller to J. Ednie Brown, 1888-09-18 [88.09.18a]. 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/1880-9/1888/88-09-18a-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

18/9/88
It does you and your Officer at Wirrabara
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SA.
great credit, dear Mr Brown, that you will shed more light on the native vegetation of that locality. It is one, rich in plants, and can exhaustively only be examined by one, who is a resident of the district. My own travelling through the region
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During M's expedition to the Flinders Ranges, SA, September-November 1851.
as a lonely rider, at a time when the natives were yet so wild, were in 1851 necessarily hurried, all my travelling in SA from 1847 til 1852 being on my private resources. It needs not my reiterated assurance, that I will aid any of your other branches of the important service which you carry on so successfully, — whenever you like to refer to me in my departmental or scientific position.
Regardfully your
Ferd. von Mueller.
Kindly read the letter in answer to Mr Gill's.
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MS annotated by Brown: 'Forwarded to Mr Gill [JEB] 24.9.88'. See also M to W. Gill, 18 September 1888.