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VPRS 805/P000O/142/89-332, outward correspondence — subject, VA 913 Public Library of Victoria, Public Record Office, Victoria. 89.03.12

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Ferdinand von Mueller to George Verdon, 1889-03-12. 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/1880-9/1889/89-03-12-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

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MS annotation: 'For the information and consideration of the Trustees. [illegible initials] 14/3/9'. While M does not indicate the surname of the addressee, Sir George Verdon was Vice-President of the Trustees of the Public Library at the time.
12/3/89
The following, dear Sir George, are the works, to which I alluded at your hospitable home as available in numerous impressions yet at the Gov Printing office:
Myoporinous plants of Australia, quarto with 75 plates.
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B86.08.05.
Iconography of Australian species of Acacia, quarto with 130 plates.
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B87.13.04, B88.13.01.
Census of Australian plants, quarto.
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B83.03.04.
Key to the system of Victorian plants, pt. 1 & 2 octavo. (1888)
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B88.11.02, B86.04.05.
Select plants for industrial culture and naturalisation, octavo 1888 (7th edition, enlarged)
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B88.12.01.
Perhaps copies can also be obtained yet of the Quarto "Eucalyptographia" with 110 plates.
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B79.13.11, B80.13.14, B82.13.17, B84.04.04, B84.11.02.
The volume on Salsolaceae with nearly 100 plates
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Only the first two Decades were published in 1889 (B89.13.04). Decades 3 - 6 were published in 1990 (B90.13.14) and Decades 7 - 9 in 1991 (B91-13-24).
will likely be ready at the end of this year.
Regardfully your
Ferd. von Mueller.
An estimate of the likely cost of reprinting any of the several volumes of the "Fragmenta" I will furnish later.
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Not found.
Since writing this I have learnt, that the "Census of Australian plants" is available only now in few impressions yet at the Gov. Printing Office. But anyhow I was anxious, to bring out a new edition with all the additional information of the last 7 or 8 years in 1889 still.
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B89.12.03. On 26 March 1889, following a meeting of the Library Committee of the Trustees, the file was marked 'Postponed'.