From John Brown1    21 April 1880

South Australia 2

21/4/1880.

MEMORANDUM

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.3 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

1
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.
2
The SA coat of arms is included in the letterhead.
3
SA.

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 19 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/80-04-21