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Am 27/8, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney. 90.07.29
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Ferdinand von Mueller to Fred Turner, 1890-07-29. 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/1890-6/1890/90-07-29-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026
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MS annotation: 'From Baron Von Mueller'.
Let me offer my felicitation, dear Mr Turner, to your new position,
which you are sure to sustain with efficiency, and which in a long series of years,
— likely before you, — you will turn to extensive utility!
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Economic Botanist to the newly-formed NSW Department of Agriculture.
The "Key to the system of Vict plants"
is purchasable either at the Melbourne Gov Printing Office or at Mr Mullen's Establishment
for the sale of books in Collins-Street Melbourne. I have no monetary interest in
the issue or sale, nor have I copies to give away except on private purchase of my
own, I purchase annually over £50 - - worth of my own works out of my own slender
purse for giving away
altho' the Government here causes such works to be distributed through the public
Library in interchanges. Surely some Sydney Bookseller might keep a few copies in
stock of
such
a work, as it applies to N.S.W. and would sell well there too largely also. It is
not expensive.
I grew into fruit
25 years ago
also at Melbourne; but I am not likely to get much public credit for that, nor for
anything else, recorded in the "Select plants" "Wattle-Report"
&c &c
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B86.04.05, B88.11.02.
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I purchase annually ... for giving away is a marginal addition, its intended position indicated by an asterisk.
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B86.04.05, B88.11.02.
Regardfully
your
Ferd. von Mueller.