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Ferdinand von Mueller to Albert Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1892-04 [92.04.00d]. 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/1890-6/1892/92-04-00d-final.odt>, accessed June 4, 2026

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Letter not found. The text given here is from Revue des sciences naturelles appliquées, vol. 39, part 2 (1892), p.39 (B92.07.04). It is dated to April 1892 as the latest likely date that it could have been sent to have been read at the meeting of the Société Nationale d'Acclimatation de France on 20 May 1892. It follows M to A. Geoffrey Saint-Hilaire, April 1892 (In this edition as 92-04-00c), and is introduced by 'Dans une autre lettre notre confrère s'exprime ainsi:' [In another letter our colleague expresses himself thus:].
Vous recevrez par ce courrier des graines fraîches de deux <<Salt-bushs>> de l'Australie centrale, pour pâturages, et aussi de Cyprès du désert faciles à acclimater [
Callitris verrucosa

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) et d'un
Acacia

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du désert, pour le cas où vous désireriez introduire ces plantes de haute valeur dans l'intérieur de l'Afrique, dans des endroits sans eau. Je vous enverrai des graines dans ce but, quand l'occasion s'en présentera.
You will receive by this mail fresh seeds of two "Salt-bushes" of Central Australia, for pastures, and also of easy-to-acclimate desert cypresses (
Callitris verrucosa

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) and a desert Acacia, in case you would like to introduce these high-value plants into the interior of Africa, in places without water. I shall send you seeds for this purpose, when the opportunity arises.