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RBG Kew, Kew Correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1891-1896, f. 49. 93.08.11

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Ferdinand von Mueller to William Thiselton-Dyer, 1893-08-11. 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/1890-6/1893/93-08-11-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

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Date stamped Royal Gardens Kew 26. SEP. 93;annotated in black ink by W. Hemsley: Recd. 26 IX 93 / W.B.H. and in red ink by Hemsley: Ackd 28.9.93 (letter not found).
11/8/93.
The new Acacia, of which a sprig was sent to you lately, dear Dr Dyer, but by an oversight without a label, is the , described by Mr Maiden and myself in the proceedings of the Linnean Soc. of N.SW. sec. series VIII, 13 plate II,
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B93.14.05.
which part was recently issued as a memorial volume of the late Sir Will. MacLeay, a near relative of our late friend Sir George M’Leay, and founder and main-sustainer of the L.S. of N.SW. You receive, I believe, this serial regularly.
With regardfullness always
your
Ferd. von Mueller
I have to thank you for the regular transmission of your ever important “Kew Bulletin and for the Icones plantarum.
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Oliver (1891-5).
I subscribe to the Bot Mag
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Curtis’s botanical magazine.
and have done so since 1857.
I have in a long and emphatic letter appealed to Dr Bancroft senior in Brisbane to interest himself with his powerful influence there for Mr Bailey
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Letter not found.
The latter is grateful for my own exertions on his behalf.
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See M to W. Thiselton-Dyer, 4 August 1893; Bailey’s position as Queensland’s Government Botanist was being retrenched.