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Physical location:

RB MSS M1, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. 96.09.10

Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to Ernest Bickford, 1896-09-10. 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/1890-6/1896/96-09-10-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

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MS sent by Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, to Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne, ca. 1989. MS written by Georg Luehmann and signed by M in a very shaky hand.
10/9/96
[…] Beckford
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Corner of MS torn away. Luehmann has mis-spelled Bickford's name.
This letter is by dictation as I do not feel well but I must not delay to acknowledge your kind letter just received
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Letter not found.
I will certify at once an application paper for your candidature at the Linnean Society of London.
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See M to the Linnean Society of London, 11 September 1896.
Your idea of starting a special society for investigating the W. Australian flora is as clever as it is original, by all means try to realize the subject, the membership need not be expensive but ought to be allotted also to numerous ladies & gentlemen in the far interior. I will readily undertake to name specimens which they may send to you or to me, it is very cheering to me that you will endeavour to obtain still this spring any sorts of minute plants & any uncommon species.
With regardful remembrance
Your
Ferd. von Mueller