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Letters to Mrs Ryan of Eucla, acc. 2146A, Battye Library, Perth. 96.08.07

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Ferdinand von Mueller to Clara Ryan, 1896-08-07. 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/1890-6/1896/96-08-07-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

7/8/96.
Have sent you some more books for your children,
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See also M to C. Ryan, 2 February 1896.
dear madam, and will continue such transmissions if you will send me a real good lot of the many different plants occuring in your vicinity, particularly the minutest sorts of which probably numerous species must occur in your vicinity, which the children with their young eyes could well find.
I want the tiny plants particularly this spring for special studies. You will not disappoint me, will you, in this easy and inexpensive task. Are no other bright spirits there to evince an interest in such a subject, more particularly so, as the finders will get credit in my works for any discoveries made.
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See also M to C. Ryan, 2 February 1896 (in this edition as 96-02-02a).
With regardful remembrance your
Ferd von Mueller