Forest Branch
Melbourne
Sept 10 1892
My Dear Baron
I must apologise for not replying to your kind letter in re naming the Eucalypt from Tasmania after myself. The fact is I have been away from Town and when I returned I found such a mass of correspondence that your letter was overlooked in the rush of it all.
You will allow me to thank you very much for the honor you have done me in giving to one of the leading genus of the Natural Order Myrtaceae a specific name after myself. I am truly glad that my deduction as shown forth at the Melbourne meeting of the Science Association has proved correct.2
I trust you will put the matter in re Moores Eucalypt and Hodgkinsons Yellow string bark right as to which should have the honor of your own name3 — Moore's tree if you are satisfied that it is distinct from E. urnigera of which I have been in doubt myself4 — as I saw E. urnigera on the S.E slope of Mt Wellington5 about 150 feet high whitish salmon col'd6 bark with red wood not unlike "jarrah" in appearance a most excellent timber tree to my mind — the tree I saw had just been chopped down that is how I came to notice the color of the wood —
If you determine these trees before the next meeting of the Science Association at Adelaide, it would be a good opportunity to bring under notice these recent discoveries of Eucalypts7
Thanking you again for your kind thoughtfulness in giving my name to the new Tasmanian Eucalypt
I remain
Yours very faithfully
Geo. S. Perrin.
Baron von Mueller
K.C.M.G. &c. &c
Eucalyptus urnigera
Myrtaceae
Please cite as “FVM-92-09-10,” 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 27 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/92-09-10