Chief Secretary's Office
Melbourne 23rd March 1869
Sir
I have the honor to transmit to you the accompanying copies of part 2 of Major Beddome's work on new and rare plants1 which have been received from the Government of Madras.2
I have the honor to be
Sir
Your obedient servant
for the Under Secy
Thos. Webb Ware
The Director
Botanic Gardens.
Beddome (1874, part 2. The work was issued in 15 parts. This part is dated 1869 (Turner (2012), p. 304) but was received in Melbourne before Turner's estimated 'Earliest date of publication', April 1869. See Lucas (2026) for discussion of the date of publication.
For reply, see M to W. Odgers, 23 March 1869 (in this edition as 69-03-23b).
Please cite as “FVM-69-03-23a,” in Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller, edited by R.W. Home, Thomas A. Darragh, A.M. Lucas, Sara Maroske, D.M. Sinkora†, J.H. Voigt† and Monika Wells accessed on