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From William Woolls to Ferdinand von Mueller   12 Dec 1879

Richmond1

Decr 12 /79

My dear Baron,

I send you by this mail a copy of the Railway Guide in which you will find my article, & some excellent ones by Mr Wilkinson.2

Yesterday I was compelled to go to Baulkam Hills near Parramatta, & there I found the White Mahogany in flower (E. acmenoides.) I send you some fresh flowers.

This tree is a species quite distinct from the Black-butt (E. pilularis). Instead of being half-barked as E. pilularis, it has a bark very similar to that of the Stringy Bark, though not so fibrous. The flowers & fruit are smaller; the wood whitish, hard & ornamental when polished; the trees not so large as the Blackbutt, & flowering plentifully just now.

I will attend to your wishes respecting E. punctata as soon as I can.

Yours very sincerely

W Woolls

Baron F. von Mueller K.C.M.G.

&c &c &c

Melbourne

Eucalyptus acmenoides

Eucalyptus pilularis

Eucalyptus punctata

1

NSW.

2

The Railway guide of New South Wales (Sydney, 1879) included an article by Woolls, 'Remarks on the flora of the Blue Mountains', and others by the geologist C. S. Wilkinson.

3

MS annotation by M: 'Answ 16/12/79 FvM.' Letter not found.

Please cite as “FVM-79-12-12a,” 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 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/79-12-12a