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RBG Kew, Kew Correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1891-1896, f. 66. 94.07.16
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Darwinia Schuermanni
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Ferdinand von Mueller to William Thiselton-Dyer, 1894-07-16. 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/1890-6/1894/94-07-16-final.odt>, accessed June 4, 2026
16/7/94
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Date stamped: Royal Gardens Kew 20 AUG 94.
It is very gratifying to me, dear Dr Dyer, to receive an other part of the grand series
of the “icones plantarum”,
which brings again a number of rare plants before us all, which otherwise most of
us would only know from description
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Volume 24, part 1 of Oliver (1891-5) was published in May 1894.
I am beholden to Prof Oliver and yourself for giving also the
a place - for otherwise very few would ever know what it
was
like, for it is sharing the fate of the Dodo.
Darwinia Schuermanni
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See M to W. Thiselton-Dyer, 1 January 1894. A drawing of D. scheurmanni was published in Oliver (1891-5), vol. 24, plate 2303.
With regardful remembrance your
Ferd. von Mueller.