Easter 1881.1
Would you oblige me, dear Sir Joseph, by sending me a specimen of Acacia deltoidea A.C.2 for comparison with the new species, of which I transmit you a branchlet.
Regardfully your
Ferd. von Mueller.
I should also like to see a specimen from R Browns collection of the original Acacia sublanata, Bth.3
Acacia deltoidea
Acacia sublanata
In 1881, Easter fell on 17 April.
Allan Cunningham.
Although the main set of specimens collected in Australia by Robert Brown (1773-1858) remained at the British Museum, in 1876 duplicates from his collection were bequeathed to Kew by J. J. Bennett who had inherited them from Brown.
MS annotation by J. Hooker: 'And with [scrap] June 10/81', See J. Hooker to M, 10 June 1881.
Please cite as “FVM-81-04-17,” 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