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Letters received, box 18, Town Councill records, City of Warrnambool archives, Warrnambool, Victoria. 96.03.27a

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Ferdinand von Mueller to Horace Lawson, 1896-03-27 [96.03.27a]. 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/1890-6/1896/96-03-27a-final.odt>, accessed June 4, 2026

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For summaries of the above letter see: Minute book 14, p. 388, 7 April 1896, Town Council records, City of Warrnambool archives, and Warrnambool standard, 8 April 1896, p. 3.
27/3/96.
The Town Clerk of Warnambool.
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i.e. Warrnambool.
Honored Sir
I owe your Council and yourself my best thanks for sending a package of seeds of Marram-Grass, also for the very acceptable addition made by you in sending the seeds of
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, that being also a splendid "Sandstay".
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See H. Lawson to M, 23 March 1896.
The season has not been a good one for maturing seeds well of many kinds of plants, and thus the Marram has also perfected only a limited proportion of grain. From A
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M had begun the sentence 'A collection...', but then inserted 'From' without modifying 'A'.
collection of seeds, recently received from Southern Asia, a set containing economic kinds, will be made up for you, as the mild and humid clime of Warnambool should be particularly conducive to rear plants from these there.
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See H. Lawson to M, 1 May 1896.
Regardfully your
Ferd von Mueller