3/9/79.
By this post, honored Sir, I beg to send you the first two decades of my Monography of the Eucalyptus-species,1 and two more decades will soon follow. On this genus, which prevails over the whole continent of Australia, observations will have yet to be made for many years, though perhaps not much will be added to the species hereafter. I am still much in want of an original specimen of E. pallens & E. obtusiflora of your illustrious parent, so that I may place both correctly in the Atlas.2
Euc. punctata D.C I have restored as a well marked species.3
With regardful remembrance your
Ferd. von Mueller.
Would a copy of the Euc. Atlas be acceptable to the Geneve Société.4
Eucalyptus obtusiflora
Eucalyptus pallens
Eucalyptus punctata
Please cite as “FVM-79-09-03,” 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 29 March 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/79-09-03