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RB MSS M32a, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. 95.10.18a

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Ferdinand von Mueller to James Henley, 1895-10-18 [95.10.18a]. 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/1890-6/1895/95-10-18a-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

18/10/95
On Tuesday I Iearnt, dear Mr Henley, from your honored Daughter, when she kindly sent the native flowers also this spring for the Field-Naturalists Club to the exhibition,
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See M to M. Henley, 15 October 1895 (in this edition as 95-10-15a).
that you and Mrs Henley were staying at the Federal Coffee-Palace. As I felt unwell all through the week, I only called this day, to pay you and your kind Lady my respects But you had left then for St Kilda, and as I feel poorly you will kindly excuse, if I do not wait on you both at once.
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See M to M. Henley, 20 November 1895.
Will you kindly accept the new edition of the Select Plants
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B95.13.02.
as a recognition of Miss Henleys genial helping at our spring-floral shows so splendidly and zealously. Her cooperation will also this year recorded
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be omitted?
in our Clubs Periodical "The Victorian Naturalist".
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Victorian naturalist, vol. 12, no. 7 (October 1895), p. 75.
Very regardfully your
Ferd von Mueller.