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best of basis to work on for the identification and classification of any plant of the 
globe. The acquisition of such a collection would long since have been realized out 
of my private resources, had they not been absorbed in the struggle through years of 
maintaining a department, created by myself, in its lasting efficiency and scientific 
dignity ; while the addition of large extra-Australian collections of authoritative impor- 
tance to the great treasures here already accumulated would render our phytologic 
Museum one of the most important of the globe, and would confer benefits and facilities 
on the scientific service of this colony for all future generations. 
I have the honor, Sir, to be 
Your obedient servant, 
FEED. YON MUELLER. 
A suggestion of mine, made to the Board of Education in 1872, and on which 
could not be acted while the changes in the school system of the country were 
contemplated, may now be deserving of consideration. It was to this effect, that at 
each school an annual prize should be held out for the best contribution to a collection 
of dried native plants at each school. The requisite scientific information I offered to 
afford, if a numbered duplicate set of any such plants were sent to my office. 
