Document information

Physical location:

RB MSS M1, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. 92.11.02

Preferred Citation:

John Dow to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1892-11-02. 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/1890-6/1892/92-11-02-final.odt>, accessed June 15, 2026

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MS accompanied by M’s museum label: 'Erythraea australis R.Br.'. MS recorded as found with a specimen of Centaurium spicatum, but this cannot now be identified. MS annotation by M: 'Rec and answ 2/11/92'. Item has been dated on the assumption that M would have received it on the day it was sent.
Jas Chisholm, Pine Grove East.
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Vic.
What is it? and is it worth anything as a medicinal plant
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What follows is in a different hand.
Compliments to the Baron and a reply to this wd greatly oblige
Jno. L. Dow
the "Leader"
Melbourne
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See M to the Leader, December 1892 (in this edition as 92-12-00a).