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RB MSS M46, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. 79.10.14Preferred Citation:
William Woolls to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1879-10-14. 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/1870-9/1879/79-10-14-final.odt>, accessed June 9, 2026
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MS found with a specimen of Eucalyptus albens var. elongata (MEL 73270) from Wellington, near Macquarie River, NSW. MS annotation by M: 'Oceanic
Monocot'. Though the MS lacks a signature, it is in Woolls's hand, he lived in Richmond,
and the reviews referred to are typical of those that he wrote.
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NSW.
Oct 14 /79
My dear Baron,
I had the pleasure to receive the 3rd Decade yesterday.
I must wait a week or ten days before I review it, as Mr. Fairfax has now an article
of mine in reference to your plates.
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B79.13.11.
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Unsigned article, 'Eucalyptus', Sydney morning herald, 15 October 1879, p. 5. The review, also unsigned, was published in Sydney morning herald, 10 November 1879, p. 7.
Since I wrote to you, I have recd a specimen of "Box" from
Wellington
(not far from the Macquarie where Cunningham procured his specimens of
E. albens
) & I send it to you by this post, because I am under the impression you are right
in supposing the true
E. albens
to be the inland variety of
E. hemiphloia
!
The bark from all accounts is similar, & the principal difference is the glaucous,
or almost powdery appearance of the leaves.
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See M's discussion in Eucalyptographia, Decade 5.
My Mudgee
friend sent me from the ranges beyond Wallerawang a specimen of a stunted tree, which
is certainly a small form of
E. dealbata
or the Peppermint.
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NSW; friend not identified.
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MS ends at bottom of page, without valediction or signature; the letter may have continued
on another page, now missing.