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RB MSS M16, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. 79.08.20

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Patrick O'Shanesy to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1879-08-20. 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/1870-9/1879/79-08-20-final.odt>, accessed June 4, 2026

Cometville
1
Qld.
August 20 1879
Dear Baron Mueller
I am in receipt of your kind note and am very thankful for the name of the Eucalyptus. A specimen of the trunk of this tree was cut for me by a friend a good while ago but never forwarded to me so that I do not know what it is like. I will endeavour to get it or another and let you know or send it to you. If there are any particular woods in this district of which you would like to obtain specimens send the names and I will forward them to you, you paying for Carriage only. I will try and send more samples of Eucalyptus gracilis with my next collection. I presume Thozet found it at the foot of Expedition range? Did he find anything else new or rare in that neighborhood? That was the poor man's last excursion and the one which cost him his life.
2
Thozet died on 31 May 1878 after falling ill while exploring Expedition Range, Qld (Capricornian, 8 June 1878, p. 11).
I enclose a fragment of a
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from Blackwater
3
Qld.
which is different to any species known to me and is not described in the Flora .
4
Bentham (1863-78).
It is common also on the high sandy country westward of the Nogoa River.
5
Qld.
The fruit is globular and perfectly smoothe, and about 1 ½ inch diameter and on a stipes of 3-4 inches in length. I have found a handsome
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in flower which I will send soon.
Yours faithfully
P. A. O'Shanesy
P.S. The enclosed
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is quite free from prickles on every part.
P. A. O'S