Department of Mines,
Melbourne, 20th-10-1894
Memorandum.
Dear Baron von Mueller
One of the trainees of the Geol survey — Mr Geo Foster now engaged in the "whipsticks" north of Bendigo — is collecting the native plants of the locality This young man is a son of the present minister of Mines Hon Hy Foster MP and I want to encourage him in Botanical studies Would you kindly name the plants for him from time to time & oblige
Yours faithfully
James Stirling1
MS accompanied by unrelated notes by Stirling (the second here is inside an empty specimen sheet): 'on wooded moist slopes of Mt Koscuisko western aspect — 6000 feet elevation | […] | 3.1.84'; and '— Shrub 7 feet high — | Habitat: Junction of Livingstone Ck & Mitta Mitta river on river banks. Alluvium — Alt. 1600 feet. | J Stirling 1-11-80'. The herbarium folder is marked on the front in an unknown hand: 'Flora of Australian Alps | Phanerogamea | No 248' and contains a typed label: 'Westringia sp. aff. eremicola Benth. var. quaterna Benth. | James Stirling'.
Please cite as “FVM-94-10-20,” 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