The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: ¶ I have despaired of being able to get fruit of this dwarf Acacia as the Cattle eat it down every season before the fruit ripens. ¶ Moyston ¶ ¶ Oct. 1873. ¶ ¶ ¶ D. Sullivan...

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Physical location:

RB MSS M19, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. 73.10.00c

Plant names

Acacia
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Preferred Citation:

Daniel Sullivan to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1873-10 [73.10.00c]. 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/1870-9/1873/73-10-00c-final.odt>, accessed June 4, 2026

MS is a scrap of paper pasted to the apparently unrelated D. Sullivan to M, 1 December 1879. There is a pencilled '12' inside a circle at the top of the sheet, possibly Sullivan's collecting number, but the October 1873 Sullivan specimen of the low-growing aculeatissima specimen at MEL is recorded as not having a record number (AVH, accessed 3 June 2023).

I have despaired of being able to get fruit of this dwarf as the Cattle eat it down every season before the fruit ripens.

Moyston

Vic.

Oct. 1873.

D. Sullivan