The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: ¶ [There are in Ausralia a considerable number of deciduous trees, though, as Dr. Mueller informs us, they are found chiefly within the tropics. We have ourselves met with several varieties in the tr...

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63.08.00a

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Ferdinand von Mueller to the Yeoman, and Australian Acclimatiser, 1863-08 [63.08.00a]. 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/1860-9/1863/63-08-00a-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

Letter not found. For the text given here, see ‘Australian Trees’, Yeoman, and Australian acclimatiser (Melbourne), 15 August 1863, p. 717. The text is preceded by a letter from ‘Grevillea’, as follows:

Sir, — In a conversation the other evening respecting the native trees of Australia, a party asserted that some of them are deciduous; others, that they are all evergreen. Can you decide this question. Yours, &c.

[There are in Ausralia a considerable number of deciduous trees, though, as Dr. Mueller informs us, they are found chiefly within the tropics. We have ourselves met with several varieties in the tropical parts of Queensland.]