5/8/91.
Accept my best felicitation, dear Mr Gill, to your Fellowship of the great R.H.S.,1 a distinction you well deserve, and which — so I trust — you through many years will enjoy.
As I have now nearly finished the 8th (again enlarged) edition of the "Select Plants",2 I shall have more free time, so as to be able to name also plants for you,
Regardfully
your
Ferd. von Mueller
Could you kindly procure for me some kino of the smooth-barked variety of Euc. Leucoxylon, of the var fasciculosa of Euc. paniculata and of the var. albens of E. hemiphloia.3
Eucalyptus hemiphloia var albens
Eucalyptus Leucoxylon
Eucalyptus paniculata var fasciculosa
Royal Horticultural Society, London. Gill was elected at the meeting of the Society held on 9 June 1891 (Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society, vol 13, p. ci, 1891), after having been nominated by M (Age (Melbourne), 28 July 1891. p. 6, col. f). Gill's election was reported in Express and telegraph (Adelaide), 28 July 1891, p. 3.
B91.09.01.
M to W. Gill, 22 August 1891 thanks Gill for supplying kino, and reported it was then forwarded to Joseph Maiden. Maiden was investigating the potential use of the substance in taxonomy, see Lucas (2017).
Please cite as “FVM-91-08-05,” 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