Melbourne botanic Garden
18/3/71
Sir
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt (in duplo) of part VII of Major Beddome's plates and Descriptions of new or rare Indian plants,1 which copies have been placed in the library of the bot. Garden.
I have the honor to be, Sir, your obedient servant
Ferd. von Mueller
Director.
W. H. Odgers Esq &c &c
Undersecretary
Beddome (1874), part 7. The work was issued in 15 parts. This part is dated 1871 (Turner (2012), p. 304) but was received in Melbourne before Turner's estimated 'Earliest date of publication', April 1871. See Lucas (2026) for discussion of the date of publication.
Annotated: ‘letter Hm. Sec to Govt Madras 28.3.71’.
Please cite as “FVM-71-03-18,” 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