Kempsey.1 Nov 21st 93
My Dear Baron
Eucalyptus
(Drooping Gum)
(Gry Gum)2
Herewith please receive another specimen of Eucalyptus like grey gum rough grey red & yellow shades of bark, a tree 60 ft or up to 80 and seldom more than 2 ft 6 diameter wood hard red & very good leaves very small and inclined to droop
I think it is the same species as the Eucalyptus I sent you last year and which you have not yet informed me of.3 it grows in poor gravelly soil slate formation 50 to 80 ft above sea level.
Yours faithfully
Wm MacDonald
I will convey your message to the Dr re submerged weeds and endeavor to send you some soon4
Baron Sir F. Von Mueller
K.C.M.G
Eucalyptus
NSW.
Marginal annotation by MacDonald.
See W. MacDonald to M, 4 December 1892 (in this edition as 92-12-04a).
Brabazon Casement was a doctor in Kempsey and referred to in W. MacDonald to M, 26 September 1892 (in this edition as 92-09-26a).
MS found with a specimen of Eucalyptus tereticornis (MEL 707276). MS annotation by M: Answ 25/11/93'. Letter not found.
Please cite as “FVM-93-11-21,” 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