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Physical location:

RB MSS M33, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. 92.10.12

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Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to Walter Gill, 1892-10-12. 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/1890-6/1892/92-10-12-final.odt>, accessed May 15, 2026

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MS is accompanied by an envelope: 'On Her Majesty's Service | Walt. Gill Esqr FLS., Conservator of forests &c Adelaide | Government Botanist, Melbourne, 13/10 1892'. The front bears the frank stamp and crest of the 'CHIEF SECRETARY VICTORIA' and a postal stamp 'MELBOURNE OCT 14 92'. The back bears the postal stamp: 'G.P.O. ADELAIDE S.A. OCT 15 92'.
12/10/92
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would be the most valuable to you for planting in any sandy soil in the interior,
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See also M to W. Gill, 6 September 1892 (in this edition as 92-09-06b).
dear Mr Gill; it occurs about the Macdonell Ranges
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on Sand hills.
Do you like to join the great Royal Hortic. Soc. of England, as F.R.H.S.? I will gladly propose you; it costs only £2 - a year for which you get the publications.
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In M to W. Gill, 5 August 1891, M had already congratulated Gill on his election as FRHS. Nineteenth-century nomination certificates to the Society no longer exist and it cannot be confirmed that M was the proposer.
Regardfully your
Ferd. von Mueller.