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RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1891-6, ff. 50-1. 93.08.27

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Ferdinand von Mueller to William Thiselton-Dyer, 1893-08-27. 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/1890-6/1893/93-08-27-final.odt>, accessed June 4, 2026

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MS date-stamped: Royal Gardens Kew 2 OCT. 93.; annotated in pencil: W.W. and in red ink by [?W. Hemsley]: Ansd. 6.10.93. (letter not found).
Sunday, 27/8/93.
That the experiment of sending the Desert -Verticordia in the open air, should not have lived through the few weeks of the voyage, dear Dr Dyer, is all the more regretable, as Mr & Mrs Markes bestowed so much care on the plants.
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See M to W. Thiselton-Dyer, 7 March 1893, and M to W. Thiselton-Dyer, 3 June 1893 (in this edition as 93-06-03a).
But as one of them had been here in culture for a year and had a strong stem, it is very likely, that it will sprout yet again in Kew
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Annotated in black ink by W. Watson adjacent to 'it is very likely ... at Kew': it was quite dead when it arrd W.W.’
It would have been inadvisable to put such plants into a Ward’s Glass case, as they come from dry hot regions and do not endure to be shut up in close air. It is very different with the
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from the moors and heaths of the moist region of K.G S.
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King George Sound, WA.
I will now try to get cuttings across to you. I have still one rooted plant here established, so I may still succeed in the attempt of adding it to the Kew treasures.
Mr Morris wrote me about your recreation trip.
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Daniel Morris, Assistant Director; letter not found.
Let me hope, that it may have proved conducive to your health and strength. Perhaps I shall get a little "airing" next month by attending at the Austral. Assoc.
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Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science.
in Adelaide, but I am not yet sure as regards the expense of money and time.
I was pleased to see, that Mr Baker also regards the 3 Austral
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s as endemic.
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Baker (1893), pp. 217–8.
Regardfully always your
Ferd. von Mueller.
I have just an other
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as new, which shows again a complete transit from
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to
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. I have only one short branchlet, but you shall have part of it.
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kingiana, B93.09.05. M's label with specimen K000356115 at Kew is annotated 'Recd X./1893'.