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Ferdinand von Mueller to Alphonse de Candolle, 1879-10-09 [79.10.09a]. R.W. Home, Thomas A. Darragh, A.M. Lucas, Sara Maroske, D.M. Sinkora, J.H. Voigt and Monika Wells (eds), Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller, <https://vmcp.rbg.vic.gov.au/id/79-10-09a>, accessed September 11, 2025

9/10/79
Allow me, dear Professor De Candolle, to send you by this days post the third decade of the Eucalyptus Atlas.
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B79.13.11, Decade 3.
I hope to forward the fourth by next month's mail. It is important, that in this work I should assign to E. pallens & E. obtusiflora their proper place, but I have not even a typical fragment of these two species to compare, none having arrived , though you kindly said that you had or would despatch them.
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Both
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and E. obtusiflora had been described by Candolle's father, A. P. de Candolle (1828), pp. 219, 220. M had requested specimens in M to A. de Candolle, 28 March 1878; no response from de Candolle has been found.
E. cneorifolia belongs to two species, the one from isle Decrès
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The name given by the French explorer Louis de Freycinet to what is now known as Kangaroo Island, SA.
= E. oleosa (among Parallelantherae), the one from the Blue Mountains
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NSW.
belonging to Renantherae. So I consider, without having seen specimens.
What a miraculous escape Dr Gray had, when recently the railway-bridge broke, in a train which conveyed our venerable Boston friend.
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In 1879, Gray visited North Carolina. On the return journey to Boston, the train in which he was travelling was involved in an accident, but no-one in his party was hurt (Dupree (1959), p. 409).
Regardfully your
Ferd von Mueller