27/3/96.
The Town Clerk of Warnambool.1
Honored Sir
I owe your Council and yourself my best thanks for sending a package of seeds of Marram-Grass, also for the very acceptable addition made by you in sending the seeds of Acacia Sophorae, that being also a splendid "Sandstay".2 The season has not been a good one for maturing seeds well of many kinds of plants, and thus the Marram has also perfected only a limited proportion of grain. From A3 collection of seeds, recently received from Southern Asia, a set containing economic kinds, will be made up for you, as the mild and humid clime of Warnambool should be particularly conducive to rear plants from these there.4
Regardfully your
Ferd von Mueller
Acacia Sophorae
i.e. Warrnambool.
See H. Lawson to M, 23 March 1896.
M had begun the sentence 'A collection...', but then inserted 'From' without modifying 'A'.
See H. Lawson to M, 1 May 1896.
For summaries of the above letter see: Minute book 14, p. 388, 7 April 1896, Town Council records, City of Warrnambool archives, and Warrnambool standard, 8 April 1896, p. 3.
Please cite as “FVM-96-03-27a,” 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