9/10/79
Allow me, dear Professor De Candolle, to send you by this days post the third decade of the Eucalyptus Atlas.1 I hope to forward the fourth by next month's mail. It is important, that in this work I should assign to E. pallens & E. obtusiflora their proper place, but I have not even a typical fragment of these two species to compare, none having arrived, though you kindly said that you had or would despatch them.2
E. cneorifolia belongs to two species, the one from isle Decrès3 = E. oleosa (among Parallelantherae), the one from the Blue Mountains4 belonging to Renantherae. So I consider, without having seen specimens.
What a miraculous escape Dr Gray had, when recently the railway-bridge broke, in a train which conveyed our venerable Boston friend.5
Regardfully your
Ferd von Mueller
Eucalyptus cneorifolia
Eucalyptus obtusiflora
Eucalyptus oleosa
Eucalyptus pallens
B79.13.11, Decade 3.
Both Eucalyptus pallens and E. obtusiflora had been described by Candolle's father, A. P. de Candolle (1828), pp. 219, 220. M had requested specimens in M to A. de Candolle, 28 March 1878; no response from de Candolle has been found.
The name given by the French explorer Louis de Freycinet to what is now known as Kangaroo Island, SA.
NSW.
In 1879, Gray visited North Carolina. On the return journey to Boston, the train in which he was travelling was involved in an accident, but no-one in his party was hurt (Dupree (1959), p. 409).
Please cite as “FVM-79-10-09a,” 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