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RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1891-6, f. 72. 95.01.08a

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Ferdinand von Mueller to William Thiselton-Dyer, 1895-01-08 [95.01.08a]. 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/1890-6/1895/95-01-08a-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

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Date stamped: Royal Gardens Kew 12. FEB. 95.; annotated in red ink by W. Hemsley: Ackd. 13.2.95 (letter not found); and in black ink by [?John Master Hillier]: Thanks herewith 17/1895 JM[H]; 13.2.95'.
8/1/95
You might like dear Dr Dyer, to put this sample of Wild-Rice into your Museum among the Australian Exhibits.
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The sample of the grain of Oryza sativa is in the Economic Botany collection at Kew, catalogue number 32207; see Kew Inwards book, entry number 17/1895.
I was the first to show its existence in Australia in 1855 & 1856 (see Hooker’s Journal),
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B56.11.01, p. 329.
as I found it then around pools far in the interior of Arnhem's Land,
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NT.
but saw it nowhere near the coast.
Had just a New years Greeting from Mrs Brian Hooker,
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Letter not found.
who — I now learn — has taken up her abode at King George's Sound,
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WA.
where the clime is remarkably pleasant.
With friendship
your
Ferd von Mueller