The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: To the Editor. ¶ Dear Sir, — ¶ ¶ You will have seen copies of the decades of my ‘Eucalyptus Atlas,’ ¶ and as the work is to include also the species of your vast colonial territory, I would venture ...

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Ferdinand von Mueller to the Editor of the West Australian, 1880-01 [80.01.00a]. 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/1880-9/1880/80-01-00a-final.odt>, accessed June 4, 2026

Letter not found. The text given here is from 'An appeal ', West Australian, 20 January 1880, p. 2 (B80.01.04).

To the Editor.

Dear Sir, —

You will have seen copies of the decades of my ‘ Atlas,’

B79.13.11.

and as the work is to include also the species of your vast colonial territory, I would venture to ask whether you would make an appeal through your valuable journal to colonists in remote localities, to dry for me branchlets of all (gum trees) of their district, in bud, in flower and fruit. If such, so easily dried and despatched specimens, are accompanied by note on height, soil, bark, gum (kino), timber, time of flowering, native names, etc., their value would be greatly enhanced.

I am somewhat disappointed in my hope to have been able to interest Western Australians and induce them to collect; as yet I have got scarcely anything.

Regardfully yours,

FERD. V. MUELLER

The letter is followed by 'Circular from Baron Ferd. V. Mueller', see 'Circular' (in this edition as 76-04-00).