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Carton no. 14, Melbourne, consulat, Serie A, Centre des Archives Diplomatiques, Nantes. 94.10.18

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Ferdinand von Mueller to Léon Dejardin, 1894-10-18. 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/1890-6/1894/94-10-18-final.odt>, accessed May 15, 2026

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For a printed version of this letter, see Home & Maroske (1997), p. 40. MS annotation by [Dejardin]: 'rép. 26' [replied 26]. Letter not found.
18/10/94.
Chevalier Dejardin,
Consul General for France.
Herewith, dear Consul Dejardin, I beg to send you for the Tunis-Regency seeds of ten kinds of rare
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, freshly collected, enough to raise many thousand trees. The species, now sent, will likely be new to Tunis. I have added good germinable seeds of three species of Bamboos. Other seeds will follow as gradually they will mature in the different parts of Australia. Additional supplies of
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Salt-Bushes-seeds can be furnished, should the Tunis-Regency find, that the quantity, kindly forwarded by you some weeks ago, is not sufficient for the camel-, sheep- and goat-pastures there.
Reverently your
Ferd. von Mueller.
It was Mons. Paul Bourde who asked for seeds in Tunis
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Letter not found. Bourde was Director of Agriculture forTunisia; the Jardin d’essai in Tunis had been founded on his initiative.