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Letter press copy book 2, p. 15, Queensland Herbarium, Brisbane. 92.04.27a

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Frederick Bailey to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1892-04-27 [92.04.27a]. 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/1890-6/1892/92-04-27a-final.odt>, accessed June 15, 2026

Colonial Botanist
Office
1
Brisbane.
April 27 [189]2
Dear Baron
Only just a line to apologize for not acknowledging with thanks the several things I have received from you since my return.
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Bailey had been to the Hobart meeting of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science, after which he briefly visited Adelaide before leaving on 1 February 1892 on the train to Melbourne (Adelaide observer, 6 February 1892, p. 37).
But really I have had so much back work to pull up with that I have been at work both night & day. Your Chenopodiaceae
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i.e. M's Iconography of Australian salsolaceous plants (B89.13.04, B90.06.04, B91.13.24). Bailey was using the order name Chenopodiaceae preferred by Bentham (1863-78), vol. 5, pp. 150 ff.; M gave priority to the Linnean term Salsolaceae of 1738.
is a very useful publication but so are all your works. Please accept my thanks for the things sent and believe me ever yours very truly
F. M. Bailey