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RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1891-6, f. 43.Date stamped: Royal Gardens Kew 8. Feb. 93, and annotated in pencil by W. Watson: 51/1893 (i.e, register number in Kew Inwards Book of specimens received); and in blue pencil by W. Thiselton-Dye:r Bulletin. This letter, lightly edited, is quoted extensively in the Bulletin of miscellaneous information, 1893, p. 112 (B93.05.04). A. R . Wallace had noted in The Garden that probably no attempt has been made to obtain plants from the cold uplands of Australia. ‘Acting on this hint, a copy of Mr. Wallace’s paper was forwarded to Sir F. von Mueller in Melbourne, to whom we are indebted for a very large proportion of the living representatives of the Australian flora now at Kew, and whose zeal is shown by the following letter which accompanied a box containing two plants both likely to live’. (Forwarding letter not found.)