To Richard Schomburgk   7 February 1870

Melbourne bot Garden

6/2/70.

Sir

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of a parcel of seeds from Arnhems Land, which collection you were so good to send to this establishment & for which I tender my best thanks. I gladly look forward also to the Museum plants, which you have been so friendly to allot to this establishment also. I will take an early opportunity of furnishing at least a succinct report thereon, which document may perhaps be appended to others to be published in connection with the surveys about Port Darwin.¹

Dr Davies, one of the trustees of the Adelaide bot. Garden, expressed a desire for some American Juglans & Carya plants for your institution. These as well as some rare Oaks I will gladly furnish, but as these young trees were raised nowhere else yet in Australia with perhaps scarcely an exception, and as they are of such great industrial value, I would much wish, that their introduction into South Australia should be acknowledged specially in some public document. Being aware that you very extensively import plants, new to your colony, & as several of these may also yet be new to Victoria, I should regard it a favor, if you would send me a brief list of the rarest & most valuable plants of any kind, which you would have to spare and be inclined to offer to my department. I would then mark such, as I may not have already here

I understand that you possess many rare conservatory plants and it is likely that several of these are not yet introduced into Victoria

I have the honor to be, Sir, your obedient

Ferd. von Mueller

Dr Rich Schomburgk,

Director of the botan Garden of Adelaide.

Carya

Juglans