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RBG Kew, Letters to J. F. Duthie, vol. 2, f. 120. 88.11.28a

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Ferdinand von Mueller to John Duthie, 1888-11-28 [88.11.28a]. 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/1880-9/1888/88-11-28a-final.odt>, accessed June 15, 2026

28/11/88
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Annotated: No 2[6]8 Recd 1-2-89; and Replied 18.2.89 (letter not found).
Accept my best thanks, dear Mr Duthie, for your splendid treatise on the grasses of N.W. India and for the instructive and faithful plates, accompanying the work.
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Duthie (1888), Duthie (1886–7).
Though too late now for being used to benefit the 7th Edit. of the “Select plants,
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B88.12.01.
I trust to utilize them for the next Edition, should merciful providence spare my life so long, as to bring yet out an other Edition. Most valuable and reliable data will thus be obtained, traced accurately to the plants concerned.
Though finally printed in October, the “select plants” (7th Edit.) will only be bound ready in December, when I will be happy to send you an impression
Regardfully
your
Ferd. von Mueller