Melb. bot. Garden
26/3/73
Since writing to you,1 dear Mr Guilfoyle, I got your kind letter of the 8th March,2 also the paper you kindly posted,3 but not the plants to which you refer. The latter I may get to day or to morrow and will then communicate with you again.4 The timber tree list is most creditable and the sizes of some of the trees is given by you far more stupendous than those previously on record. Of such forests as yours surely a few square-miles ought to be preserved by Government from encroachment of any kind for all time as state reserves. A memorial from your inhabitants there would bring readily such measure about
It is English mail day; so please excuse my haste.
Regardfully your
Ferd. von Mueller
Please cite as “FVM-73-03-26,” 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 8 May 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/73-03-26