Document information

Physical location:

RB MSS 439c, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. 70.08.23

Plant names

Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to William Guilfoyle, 1870-08-23. 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/1870-9/1870/70-08-23-final.odt>, accessed June 9, 2026

Melbourne bot. Garden
23/8/70
It is with delight, dear Mr Guilfoyle, that I hear of your fathers account of the Tweed
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Tweed River, NSW.
and of your own prospect of going there. A diligent search among the plants there will unquestionably reveal much novelty . I merely mention the proteaceous genus
Strangea

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, which grows there, and of which the flowers as yet remained unknown. So the position of the genus is never yet precisely fixed. Mr C. [Mo]ore
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MS damaged.
or in his absense perhaps Mr Carron would show the plant to you in the herbarium
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At the Sydney Botanic Garden.
and you might make a tracing and learn the precise spot of its growth. I wished much I could get soon a specimen in flower, even if only a small fragment in a letter. Indeed from such a spot no plant of any kind would come amiss, even if not otherwise useful, it will be geographically interesting.
The
Dombeya

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I will gladly examine for you, whenever you may send it.
Should you any time still go to San Francisco, I will gladly give you letters to friends there.
I never had the pleasure to read your father's account of the Tweed vegetation in the "Herald"
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Michael Guilfoyle, in Sydney morning herald, 24 December 1869, p. 3.
With very best regard to him & you
Ferd. von Mueller.