New year, 1887
All your important observations, dear Mr Crawford will be utilized for the new edition on "select plants" which is to be brought out for the Exhibition here,1 the timber in which will particularly attract attention. What I took from a hurried inspection of your specimen as E. haemastoma is the E. Sieberiana, a far more valuable timber tree, as you also observed. In flower fruit and leaves the two do not differ much, but in bark and wood they are very distinct, and I treated both fully in my work "Eucalyptography".2 If that work is not in the library of your nearest Mechanics Institute, it might be obtained, if the President wrote himself to the Hon the Premier of Victoria; but my name as the one, who suggested this course, must not be mentioned.
May the new annual space of time, on which we have entered be replete with joyfulness to you.
Regardfully
your
Ferd von Mueller
Eucalyptus haemastoma
Eucalyptus Sieberiana
Please cite as “FVM-87-01-01,” 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 23 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/87-01-01