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From Ferdinand von Mueller to the Tambo Shire Council   [Aug 1891]1

[From Baron Ferd. von Mueller —Forwarding copy of his work on select plants for industrial culture,2 with a view to guiding the Council in selecting willows, etc., for the protection of the river banks;3 also enclosing seeds of American pines. — Received.]4

1

Letter not found. The text given here is 'Correspondence' in the report of the meeting of the Tambo Shire Council held on 20 August 1891, Snowy River mail and Tambo and Croajingolong gazette, 22 August 1891, p. 3.

2

Presumably B88.12.01, unless B91.09.01 became available for distribution earlier than implied by M to T. Wilson 15 September 1891.

3

See Tambo Shire Council to M, July 1891 (in this edition as 91-07-00a).

4

The next item in 'Correspondence' is 'From the Department of Agriculture— That sufficient for 1000 cuttings of the golden basket willow had been forwarded to the Council. —The engineer to distribute same to the best advantage.'

Please cite as “FVM-91-08-00,” 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/91-08-00