From William Woolls1    14 October 1879

Richmond2

Oct 14 /79

My dear Baron,

I had the pleasure to receive the 3rd Decade yesterday.3 I must wait a week or ten days before I review it, as Mr. Fairfax has now an article of mine in reference to your plates.4

Since I wrote to you, I have recd a specimen of "Box" from Wellington (not far from the Macquarie where Cunningham procured his specimens of E. albens) & I send it to you by this post, because I am under the impression you are right in supposing the true E. albens to be the inland variety of E. hemiphloia!5 The bark from all accounts is similar, & the principal difference is the glaucous, or almost powdery appearance of the leaves.

My Mudgee6 friend sent me from the ranges beyond Wallerawang a specimen of a stunted tree, which is certainly a small form of E. dealbata or the Peppermint.7

 
1
MS annotation by M: 'Oceanic Monocot'. Though the MS lacks a signature, it is in Woolls’s hand, he lived in Richmond, and the reviews referred to are typical of those that he wrote.
2
NSW.
3
B79.13.11.
4
Unsigned article, 'Eucalyptus', Sydney morning herald, 15 October 1879, p. 5. The review, also unsigned, was published in Sydney morning herald, 10 November 1879, p. 7.
5
See M's discussion in Eucalyptographia, Decade 5.
6
NSW; friend not identified.
7
MS ends at bottom of page, without valediction or signature; the letter may have continued on another page, now missing.

Please cite as “FVM-79-10-14,” 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 20 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/79-10-14