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From Thomas Muir to Ferdinand von Mueller   25 Nov 1881

Deeside1

Nov 25 81

Baron von Mueller

My Dear Sir

I must now thank you for the grass seed you kindly sent the fungus truffle is only eaten by the Kangaroo rats Was on the coast the other day the [orchid] is now in flower found a nice patch on the Coast Hills it looked Beautiful two men came here from Perth to go to Broke inlet2 to gather seeds of the Crimson gum but returned unsucsessful could not find the Trees scrub being so thick they could make no headway

they aim to try now from Forest Hill to the west of Irwins Inlet

With kind regards

Yours truly

Thomas Muir

Baron Von Mueller

Melbourne

Enclosed3

Fern found growing 15 miles from here down the Warren River

Thomas Muir

1

The Muir family's property on the upper Warren River, south-east of Manjimup, WA.

2

All geographical teatures named in WA.

3

Note on a separate piece of paper filed with the letter.

Please cite as “FVM-81-11-25a,” 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/81-11-25a