Bulladelah. 25/8/84.
N. S. Wales.
My dear Baron, as to the Map, when I go to Stroud1 early next month, I will find out whether the map of the County of Gloucester has been published. If so I shall send you one, — otherwise you will have to put up with the Parish map, which, I presume, I can obtain at the Land Office there. When at Forster lately I spoke to a boy the son of the constable in charge there to obtain specimens of Sea-weed — What I now write about, as time is precious just at present, is a specimen of Callitris I have just posted. When I came to this district last year, I heard of two pine trees (same as that of Richmond River) growing in the Coolongolook Brush, through which I have to ride on my way to Forster before I take to the boat, in which I go down Coolongolook River and through Wallis Lake to Forster at Cape Hawke. I did not believe that such trees I mean Richmond River Pines (Araucaria Cun.2) grew there and never was able to get any sufficient information to enable me to find them — However, in some very bad weather a short time ago one of them (a good sized tree) was blown down and fell across the road, so that there was no difficulty to find it, except that I had to travel by the old road, not used at present — I also heard of a quantity of "Williams River Pine" which grows up a creek, but after which I have not troubled myself, as I got a description of the fruit from which I know it is Stenocarpus salignus, which the sawyers, in the early days of the Richmond, used to call smooth-barked Pine. Many thanks for the long list of my specimens, — the wants with respect to a few of which shall be attended to when I have a little spare time on hand, which does not come often — However, the days are stretching and in that way I shall have more time soon — On Saturday, when I was returning, I found the constable waiting for me on the road and had to ride home as hard as I could manage over such a road, as a woman had died suddenly that morning and an Inquest cannot legally be held on Sunday, — so I had to ride hard to get it over some time that Evening and finally got home to dinner (when all was certified to by the Jury) after 9 P.M.
With best wishes I am yours faithfully
Charles H Fawcett.
Baron Ferd von Mueller
&c &c &c
Melbourne.
Araucaria cunninghamii
Callitris
Stenocarpus salignus
Please cite as “FVM-84-08-25,” 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