South Australia1
21/4/1880.
MEMORANDUM
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From CONSERVATOR OF FORESTS, adelaide. |
To Sir Ferd. Mueller. Govt Botanist. Melbourne. |
Dear Sir Ferdinand
The enclosed is from the Mallee scrub near Wallaroo on Spencer's Gulf.2 It forms the chief tree there. Kindly say which species of Eucalypt it is. Is it your E. gracilis?
Yours very truly
J. E. Brown
Eucalyptus gracilis
The insignia of the Government of SA is included in the letterhead.
SA.
MS found with a specimen of Eucalyptus gracilis (MEL 1610616), collected by Brown at Wallaroo, SA. For a copy of this letter see GRG 16/3/1 Conservator of Forests letter press copy book, p. 411, Woods and Forests Department, State Records of SA, Adelaide.
Please cite as “FVM-80-04-21,” 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