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RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1891-6, f. 56. 94.03.06

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Ferdinand von Mueller to William Thiselton-Dyer, 1894-03-06. 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/1890-6/1894/94-03-06-final.odt>, accessed June 5, 2026

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Date stamped: Royal Gardens Kew 9.APR 94. and annotated by J. Hooker: JDH 10/4/94.
6/3/94.
My best thanks are due to you, dear Dr Dyer, for sending me the xylographic portion of your new Kew Museum's Guide.
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Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (1893).
What riches you have under your surveillance! all so instructively accessible.
It will interest Sir Joseph to hear that the Rev John Bufton has found
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See M to J. Bufton, January 1894 (in this edition as 94-01-00g).
in Tasmania, rather copiously in the nothern portion of Tasman’s peninsula, therefore not very far from Hobart.
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It will interest … Hobart is marked with a blue pencil line in the margin.
Such a plant is easily overlooked in swamps among grasses and other herbs. This with
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makes among new records for the Tasmanian Flora 2 additional genera.
the first steam -whaler in Australian Waters has brought a lading of Seal-Oil and Seal-skins, it is a Norwegian ship, which made this debut.
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See 'The barque Antarctic', Argus, 26 February 1894, p. 4, col. b.
It will doubtless be the commentment
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commencement?
of a large industry. In the R. geographic Soc. of Austr. we have worked during a dozen years for it.
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See Home et al. (1992).
This mornings telegrams announce a munificent private gift to the RGS for an other north-polar expedition by Mr Holdsworth.
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Alfred C. Harmsworth, later first Viscount Northcliffe, funded an expedition by F. G. Jackson. See Harmsworth (1894), F. Jackson (1894), Savitt and Lüdecke (2007). A brief note appeared in the Argus, 3 March 1894, p. 9. col. h.
With regardful remembrance your
Ferd von Mueller