DEPARTMENT OF MINES
VICTORIA
15/11/89
Dear Baron
When I saw you about ten days ago I left with you some fossil fruit from Beaufort1 which you kindly said you would examine and name.
The finder of the fruits is desirous of being informed as to them. May I therefore trouble you with a request that at your leisure you will send me a line for him. He also asks that the fruit may be returned to him.
The samples are contained in a little green cardboard box, wrapped in cotton wool.
I am dear Baron
Yours faithfully
A. W. Howitt
Baron Ferd. v. Mueller KCMG
Government Botanist
South Yarra
Vic.
Please cite as “FVM-89-11-15,” 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