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From:
George Bentham
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
17 December 1872
Source of text:
RB MSS M3, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
No summary available.
Plans to see THH in London.
Report of yellow fever among Brazilian monkeys probably untrue; his correspondent is only a journalist.
Encloses letter about monkeys allegedly dying from yellow fever.
Describes a case of maternal instinct, in which a hen protected kittens.