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RBG Kew, Kew Correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1882-90, ff. 294-5. 88.11.01
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Ferdinand von Mueller to William Thiselton-Dyer, 1888-11-01. 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/1880-9/1888/88-11-01-final.odt>, accessed May 10, 2026
1/11/89.
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Date stamped: Royal Gardens Kew 10. Dec. 88.
Annotated in red ink:
Ackt. sent 12/12/88 (letter not found). The date stamp, the annotation, and the mention of the imminent publication of
B88.11.02 and B88.12.01 and of Ridley's appointment to Singapore all indicate that
M misdated the letter, and that it was writen in 1888.
I managed, dear Mr Dyer, to get a parcel of remarkably nice Algs away to you by this
mail. The gatherer, Mr W. Bracebridge Wilson, was induced by myself to extend his
own bryozoic collecting with the trawl to Algs, and then since a few years his gathering
went through me to Agardh. As he discovered several absolutely new forms, some even
generic, I send the largest duplicates-collection to you, — because thus the Kew Herbarium
will gain novelties; — besides most of the specimens represent new localities of uncommon
species.
I hope, to get
bound
or
stitched
copies of Key I and of the 7th Edit of the select plants
away by this mail; but they will not be ready in time though the printing is completed
weeks ago.
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B88.11.02, B88.12.01
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though … ago
marginal note on left margin of f. 294, front, with intended position indicated by
an
F.
Your excellent Assistant, Mr Morris, wrote me, while you were absent, about Eucalypts;
his remarks will guide me.
Naudin lost several species young, because the seeds were sown in soil not suited
in each case. It will be always well, to try the sowing in
different
soils, calcareous earth being conducive to the growth of some most particularly.
Geologic data in reference to the distribution of Eucalypts are gradually accumulating.
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Letter not found.
Regardfully
your
Ferd. von Mueller.
Mr Morris writes also about members, obtained for the R.H.S.;
some more will be gradually proposed; but I am always scrupulous in the selection.
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Royal Horticultural Society, London.
Mr Ridley will be a splendid acquisition for Indian Phytography,
horticulture and forestry; where he will be able to study more fully the relation
of the Flora of the Malaian
peninsula to that of the Sunda-Islands
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Henry Ridley was appointed as Director of the Botanic Gardens in Singapore in 1888.
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Malayan?