To Robert Watson   30 March 1884

30/3/84.

To the Chief Engineer of the Victorian Railways.

 

Sir

Would you oblige me by kindly informing me, what Eucalyptus-wood chiefly is used in your Department for Railway-Buffers? I should like to obtain this information for a new Victorian edition of my work on select plants for industrial culture.1 You could add to the obligation, under which I shall be placed by you, if you would communicate to me a few brief notes from your local experience on the respective value of various native woods in Railway-construction; such information would be fully acknowledged in the work as obtained from you.

Respectfully

your

Ferd. von Mueller.2

1
In B85.13.06, p. 145, M noted that Eucalyptus rostrata was used for buffers, among many other uses. However, he did not give a source for the information.
2
For reply see R. Watson to M, 3 April 1884, in this edition as 84-04-03a.

Please cite as “FVM-84-03-30,” 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 26 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/84-03-30