[From Baron Von Mueller, Director, Royal Botanic Garden, Melbourne,1 acknowledging receipt of bamboo seed and expressing his readiness to interchange, and to receive the publications of the Society.]
The Melbourne Botanic Gardens were not granted the epithet ‘Royal’ until 1958.
Letter not found. For the text given here, see ‘Monthly Proceedings of the Society’, Journal of the Agricultural and Horticultural Society of India, 1871, p. lxxvlii. The text appears in the proceedings of the meeting on 23 November 1871; the item is dated to October 1871 as the latest likely date that the publication could have been sent, to be noticed at this meeting.
Please cite as “FVM-71-10-00b,” 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