Document information

Physical location:

RB MSS M9, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. 80.05.12a

Preferred Citation:

Robert Fitzgerald to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1880-05-12 [80.05.12a]. 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/1880-9/1880/80-05-12a-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

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MS found with a specimen of Microstrobus fitzgeraldi (MEL 256548). MS annotation by M: 'Answ 29/5/80'. Letter not found.
Surveyor General's Office ,
Sydney , 12 May 188 0.
Dear Baron
I enclose an extract from the Herald of the 8th
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Enclosure not found. The Sydney morning herald ,8 March 1880, published a letter from Fitzgerald under the heading 'New Dendrobiums and Sarcochilus'; see Fitzgerald (1880).
which to overcome Reichenbachs objections I have also sent to the Gardeners Chronicle.
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Fitzgerald (1880a), in the Gardeners' chronicle, is a reprint of his letter to the Sydney morning herald.
I also enclose what I take to be a very interesting specimen obtained under the actual falls at Katoomba water fall on the Blue Mountains.
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NSW.
It is a straggling shrub of about six or seven feet, very like a juniper I could not reconcile it with any of the pines of Tasmania but if it is one of them, it must at least be new to New South Wales I have never seen it before. If you should want them I think I can get specimens of both sexes but I could not see any cones when I found it.
Yours truly
Robt D Fitzgerald