From Ferdinand von Mueller to the Editor of the West Australian   [Jan 1880]¹

To the Editor.

Dear Sir, —

You will have seen copies of the decades of my ‘Eucalyptus Atlas,’² and as the work is to include also the species of your vast colonial territory, I would venture to ask whether you would make an appeal through your valuable journal to colonists in remote localities, to dry for me branchlets of all Eucalyptus (gum trees) of their district, in bud, in flower and fruit. If such, so easily dried and despatched specimens, are accompanied by note on height, soil, bark, gum (kino), timber, time of flowering, native names, etc., their value would be greatly enhanced.

I am somewhat disappointed in my hope to have been able to interest Western Australians and induce them to collect; as yet I have got scarcely anything.

Regardfully yours,

FERD. V. MUELLER³

Eucalyptus