Ferdinand von Mueller

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MS black-edged; M's brother-in-law George Doughty died on 26 March 1890.

16/5/90

Thanks for continued sending of your excellent "Bulletin",

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i. e. Kew bulletin of miscellaneous information.

dear Mr Dyer, also for icones plantarum,

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Oliver (1891-5). Oliver's editorship began with vol. 20, Part 1 of which was issued in March 1890.

though the latter never seem to bring more Austral plants

I find in the last number of the Journal of Arts the Cyperus Pangorei noted as used in Cochin for mats.

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'Mat manufacture in Cochin', Journal of the Society of Arts, 11 April 1890, pp. 508-9.

Would that refer to C. corymbosus or to some other species? Mr Clarke,

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C. B. Clarke.

as a Cyperologist, might know. I am making renewed efforts for getting you the two rare Verticordias from the interior of W.A.

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See M to W. Thiselton-Dyer, 28 January 1890.

Did the big Gymnoschoenus sphaerocephalus succeed?

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See M to W. Thiselton-Dyer, 18 April 1889.

Annotated in pencil in the central margin adjacent to this sentence, by Thiselton-Dyer(?): never started.

Even if the results are negative, it would be well to know, as I might learn from the successless trials something for further action.

I always subscribe for an extracopy of the icones and of course also for the botanic Magazine.

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J. Hooker (1865-1904).