Ferdinand von Mueller

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MS is accompanied by an envelope. The front is marked: ' On Her Majesty's Sevice . Ch T. Musson Esq [F]LS. | Hawkesb. Agricult. College, Richmond, N. S. Wales Government Botanist , Melbourne, 4/9/1892.' The front also bears the stamp and crest of the Chief Secretary of Victoria and is date-stamped Melbourne, 5 September 1892. The back is date stamped Richmond, 6 September 1892.

4/9/92.

Through the great reductions in my Department and other circumstances, dear Mr Musson, I feel myself so occupied for 1892, that I cannot enter on any additional duties, so that I advise you, to with-hold the few plants from the list, such as the Vitis, concerning which you might say under Vitis opaca, that a Vitis allied to that species and also greatly resembling the W.A. Vitis angustissima, had also been found by you. It can make very little difference , whether you have some few more species in the first list, after I named such an extensive lot for you. — of course, numerous species will be added from the same locality here after, when the few, requiring critic careful comparison, can also be delt with. You could probably during the Christmas and New Years Holidays revisit the locality, when you would be sure to find supplemental material. I expected you would have occasionally sent rare specimens of plants during the last two years. In the north of N.SW you might likely find

Aldrovanda vesiculosa

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if attentively looked for.