Bairnsdale Irrigation and Water Supply Trust,
TRUST OFFICES,
Bairnsdale, 2nd March 1891
Baron Sir Ferdinand Von Mueller M.D., K.C.M.G, F.R.S.
Government Botanist
Botanic Museum
Melbourne
Sir
I have the honor by direction of the Chairman of the Trust (T. W. Drevermany Esqe) to forward to you under separate cover a parcel containing what is supposed to be yellow stringy bark (Eucalyptus Muelleriana) & wish to obtain your valuable opinion as to its identity. I may state that the Trust are about entering into extensive contracts for fencings etc, and are desirous of utilising the timber in the vicinity of the works, of which this supposed yellow stringy bark is part. Commissioner Hodgkinson of the Melbourne Harbour Trust has reported favorably of the yellow stringy bark grown in South Gippsland, in the neighbourhood of Port Albert,1 & Commissioners of this Trust wish to know if the sample now forwarded to you is identical with that timber.
I have the honor to be
Sir,
Your obedient Servant
J. S. H. Hammond
Trust Secty
Eucalyptus Muelleriana
Please cite as “FVM-91-03-02,” 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 28 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/91-03-02