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From Ferdinand von Mueller to the Trustees of the Melbourne Public Library   24 Aug 1871

Melbourne Botan Garden

Aug 24. 1871

Gentlemen,

I would feel greatly obliged if you would grant me the temporary loan of the work by Dr Darwin, containing his poem called "The Botanic Garden".1

It is required by me in connection with a lecture which I have been requested to deliver at the Industrial and Technol. Museum.2

I am Gentlemen

your obedient

Ferd. von Mueller,

M.D.

The Trustees Publ. Library etc.

1

E. Darwin (1791). The Library held the collected works, published in 1806 (Public Library of Victoria. (1880), p. 335..

2

MS annotation: 'Granted for the use of the Department Augustus Tulk Librarian'.

3

MS written by G. Luehmann and signed by M.

Please cite as “FVM-71-08-24d,” 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 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/71-08-24d