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Botanic Gardens , 
Sydney , .:. 
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Sir, , • 
I am putting forth a special effort with a view of obtaining 
additional specimens suitable for the Botanical Museum attached to 
these Gardens. I desire seeds and* fruits (especially those which are 
large, handsome, or of special interest), fungi, pieces of bark say 
6 inches to 1 foot long, dried roots, gums, resins and other exudations, 
teratological specimens, and museum objects generally. 
I desire to make this museum useful not only to local and 
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visiting botanists, but of special interest to the public at large. These 
Gardens, being practically in the heart of the city, are daily visited by 
an enormous number of people. 
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In exchange I can send herbarium specimens (particularly 
those from New South Wales and South Australia), and can send you 
a list to select from,—seeds (an annual catalogue is published), and 
museum specimens including fruits, &c., of Australian plants, together 
with those from other countries grown in these Gardens. 
Because of its cheapness and quickness I prefer specimens to 
be sent per “sample post” as far as possible, but boxes could if 
preferred, be.sent to London (c/o Messrs. Kegan Paul, Trench, 
Trubner, and Co., Paternoster House, Charing Cross Road, agents for 
these Gardens) or to me direct. 
My American correspondents are informed that the Union S.S. 
Co. kindly transmits, free of charge, small parcels from San Francisco 
to these Gardens. 
I have the honor to be. 
Sir, , 
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Your obedient Servant, 
J. H. MAIDEN, 
Director* 
The Director, 
Botanic Gardens, 
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