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RB MSS M46, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. 79.03.31b

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William Woolls to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1879-03-31 [79.03.31b]. 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/1870-9/1879/79-03-31b-final.odt>, accessed June 4, 2026

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MS found with a specimen of Cyathea cunninghamii (MEL 224426), from the Dandenong Ranges [Vic], October 1878. There is an anonymous note on the MS: 'The letter seems to have nothing to do with the collection.'
Richmond
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NSW.
March 31 /79
My dear Baron,
I send you a paragraph from to-day's Herald .
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See Sydney morning herald, 31 March 1879, p. 5, for a review of B78.11.01, M's descriptions of new fossil plants; the review was almost certainly written by Woolls whose newspaper pieces were rarely signed.
It will make the subject known. We have lately come upon a fossil fern or aquatic plant in sandstone. As soon as I can get a drawing, I will send it to you. It seems to be a frond of several inches, reticulated.
I am sorry to say that I cannot help you about the Orchid, & I am glad that you have written to Canon King.
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Letter not found, but see R. King to M, 1 April 1879, and M to the Gardeners' chronicle, May 1879 (in this edition as 79.05.00c).
I find that Bauer
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Ferdinand Bauer.
did not collect all the Norfolk Island ferns, for other collectors found there
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This entry is marked with a cross.
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I hope some of these days you will publish a full list of the Norfolk Island Ferns.
Yours very sincerely
W. Woolls