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From Ferdinand Krausé to Ferdinand von Mueller   2 June 1882

June 2d 1882

Dear Sir —

I have been so far unsuccessful in procuring any more of the sub-fossil conifer wood at Haddon,1 but I send by this post the only specimen of the kind which remained in our museum, happy to subordinate our own interest to the greater cause for which you labor.

The two specimens of banksia (?) cone which accompany the wood are said to occur with the spondylostrobus, but I doubt it.2 I shall, however, take an early opportunity of visiting the mine and note the stratographical order of the beds lately exposed.

I also forward a slab from the beds at Haddon. The sandy clay layers which rest upon the gold drift, and are themselves covered either by basalt or clay and gravel drifts of newer pliocene age, are clearly a lacrustine deposit. I shall be glad to have your opinion on the nature of these plant remains and to know whether they are allied to those found at Daylesford or Bacchus Marsh.

Believe me, dear Sir,

Yours truly

F. M. Krausé3

Baron Von Mueller

K.C.M.G. M & Ph.D. etc. etc. etc.

Banksia

Spondylostrobus

1

See A. Berry to M, 11 May 1882.

2

M had discussed in B82.05.02, p. 44, under Spondylostrobus smythii, specimens of this fossil wood that Krausé had sent him earlier.

3

See M to F. Krausé, June 1882 (in this edition as 82-06-00a).

Please cite as “FVM-82-06-02,” 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/82-06-02