The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: ¶ [We have just received from Baron von Mueller the opening number of his latest work the "Introduction to Botanic Teachings at the Schools of Victoria," ¶ from which we select the interesting and e...

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Ferdinand von Mueller to the California Farmer and Journal of Useful Sciences, 1877-10. 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/1870-9/1877/77-10-00-final.odt>, accessed June 9, 2026

Letter not found. The text given here is from 'The Eucalyptus tree', California farmer and journal of useful sciences, 22 November 1877, p. 84.

[We have just received from Baron von Mueller the opening number of his latest work the "Introduction to Botanic Teachings at the Schools of Victoria,"

B77.08.01. The editors evidently saw this book as the first of a series, but it was planned as a single volume; see Lucas, Maroske & Brown-May (2006), esp. pp. 37-44.

from which we select the interesting and entirely new description of the Eucalypt here given. We shall hereafter give from his work the history of the leading "Allied plants," which he so admirably classifies.

The series of extracts was published, initially under the heading 'The Eucalyptus trees and allied plants', the title of Chapter 1 of B77.08.01, at p. 83 of this issue (B77.11.04). Further extracts appeared under that or different titles in subsequent issues. The illustrations in the source were not reproduced.

We return our grateful thanks to Baron von Mueller for his courteous attention in sending us his valuable work, and also a selection of rare seeds, not heretofore found in this country.]

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We hope the scientific history of the Eucalypt, here given, will awaken more attention to this most invaluable tree, as whatever may yet have been said or written of it, has only awakened but a tithe of the interest and attention which this great class of trees truly merits, and of which Prof. Cichi, of the Santa Clara College describes as the "Heaven given tree," and of which we are glad to know our people are now beginning to duly appreciate.