[At a meeting of the Exhibition Committee held yesterday, Mr. Darvell read a letter from Mr. Cowderoy, the Melbourne agent, stating that the contributions from this district had arrived in good order, and that they had been properly displayed in the Melbourne Exhibition.1 Dr. Mueller had applied for a transverse section of the Curragong Tree,2 and the committee authorised one to be transmitted.]
The Victorian Exhibition of 1861, preliminary to the London International Exhibition, 1862.
More usually spelled Currajong or Kurrajong; spelled Curryong in the vernacular name of Brachychiton populneum in Victorian Exhibition (1861), p. 228, where it is listed in the table of 'Timber specimens' and attributed to the 'Ovens Committee'.
Letter not found. The text given here is from 'The Beechworth Exhibition', Constitution and Ovens mining intelligencer (Beechworth, Vic), 15 October 1861, p. 2. The item was reprinted in Herald (Melbourne), 17 October 1861, p. 7.
Please cite as “FVM-61-10-00b,” 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