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From:
Frederick Bailey
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
2 October 1879
Source of text:
RB MSS M5, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:
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Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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Sends postal order for Samuel Scudder’s Catalogue [of scientific serials (1879)].
JDH looking for a gardener for CD’s unusual needs.
Has returned corrected sheets [of Erasmus Darwin] to Dallas. [CD’s note forwards this letter to a third person, presumably W. S. Dallas.]
CD invites MGR and his wife to lunch. Travel directions. Regrets that he will be unable to converse for more than an hour and a half. [See 12246.]
Discusses CGS’s account of Pellew Islands. Still believes atolls and barrier reefs in Pacific indicate subsidence. But cases like Pellew Islands, if frequent, would make his conclusions of little value.
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