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RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1891-6, f. 82. 96.02.24

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Ferdinand von Mueller to William Thiselton-Dyer, 1896-02-24. 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/1890-6/1896/96-02-24-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

24/2/96
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Date stamped: Royal Gardens Kew 30.MAR.96, and annotated in red ink by W. Hemsley: Ackd. with list 31.3.96 (neither list nor letter found).
By this weeks mail, dear Dr Dyer, I am sending you about 18 species of ferns but in poor fragmentary specimens. They came from a Collector in British New Guinea, whose travels I largely supported by my private means.
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William Fitzgerald? See M to W. Thiselton-Dyer, 3 March 1896 (in this edition as 96-03-03a).
These ferns give a new Papuan locality, so that thus far they will be of interest to the Kew collection. They do not seem however to contain anything, that we not already got from New Guinea.
With best greeting your
Ferd von Mueller
25/2/96
A second box was unpacked and gave 26 additional fern series, nothing probably of importance, except the means for recording additional localities.
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Annotated by J. Baker in black ink below the postscript: 37 species of ferns & Lycopodeaceae received Mch 30 1896 | Report sent herewith JGB.