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Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, J. H. Balfour correspondence, vol. X, f. 266. 62.11.24a

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Ferdinand von Mueller to John Balfour, 1862-11-24 [62.11.24a]. 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//letters/1860-9/1862/62-11-24a-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

24/11/62
Dear Professor.
By this mail I have forwarded to you the manuscript of the record on the plants of F Gregorys North West Australian Expedition,
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B63.13.03.
also the last 5 No of my fragmenta, in which some of these plants are described. I have not sent the plates, as they would be crushed by being sent by bookpost, but they can & will be sent at a later date, as I have to send you soon seeds & dried plants by sailing vessel & the continuations of my works.
I beg to enclose a few seeds fresh collected of the remarkable
Cathartocarpus Brewsteri

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from the Burdekin. It is a noble & most handsome tree & thus well worthy of bearing the name of the Veteran Savant of your city, who, I believe, is not aware of my having paid him this slight token of respect some years since.
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C. Brewsteri was described in B59.04.04, p. 110.
The species is very singular for the spherical nodes, which are born
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borne?
by the lower filaments.
The enclosed paragraph is a copy of a letter which I received from your energetic and ingenious pupil Dr Kirk.
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Probably the letter published in the Argus, 21 November 1862, p. 7, col. 3. See J. Kirk to M, 4 May 1862.
Ever most regardfully
yr
Ferd Mueller
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