The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: Easter 1881. ¶ ¶ Would you oblige me, dear Sir Joseph, by sending me a specimen of Acacia deltoidea A.C. ¶ for comparison with the new species, of which I transmit you a branchlet. ¶ Regardfully you...

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Physical location:

RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-81. f. 301. 81.04.17

Plant names

Acacia deltoidea
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Acacia sublanata
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Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1881-04-17. 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/81-04-17>, accessed June 23, 2025

MS annotation by J. Hooker: 'And with [scrap] June 10/81', See J. Hooker to M, 10 June 1881.

Easter 1881.

In 1881, Easter fell on 17 April.

Would you oblige me, dear Sir Joseph, by sending me a specimen of A.C.

Allan Cunningham.

for comparison with the new species, of which I transmit you a branchlet.

Regardfully your

Ferd. von Mueller.

I should also like to see a specimen from R Browns collection of the original , Bth.

Although the main set of specimens collected in Australia by Robert Brown (1773-1858) remained at the British Museum, in 1876 duplicates from his collection were bequeathed to Kew by J. J. Bennett who had inherited them from Brown.