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Physical location:

RB MSS M33, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. 92.03.14

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Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to Walter Gill, 1892-03-14. 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/1890-6/1892/92-03-14-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

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MS is accompanied by an unstamped envelope marked by M: ' Private Walt Gill Esqr F.L.S.'
Private
14/3/92
Best thanks, dear Mr Gill, for your kind sending of seeds of
Baeckea Behrii

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. My friend in San Francisco will be delighted, to receive them.
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Hermann Behr had been living in San Francisco for many years.
I feel much touched with your sympathy!
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Letter not found.
Altho' my personal salary is continued, which I have always after my very frugal lonely life and support of charities sunk in the Department; but three fourth of the working expenses of the establishment have been taken away, so that for assistants museum-expenses, office-work correspondence, collecting, publications all and all only £400 are left! You can easily see, that the continuation of lithographic publications and much else &c will under such circumstances be an impossibility.
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The vote for the Government Botanist was reduced in the1892 financial crisis; see M to A. McLean, 1 January 1892, and T. Wilson to M, 13 February 1892.
Please, consider this confidential.
Regardfully
your
Ferd von Mueller.