The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: 7/5/81 ¶ ¶ I feel much beholden to you, dear Mr Dyer, for sending me the flowers of Benthams Euc. stricta, ¶ which prove that very pardonably two species are confounded by our illustrious friend, un...

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RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-81, f. 302. 81.05.07

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Eucalyptus crebra
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Eucalyptus sect Micranthereae
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Eucalyptus sect Poranthereae
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Eucalyptus stricta
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Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to William Thiselton-Dyer, 1881-05-07. 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/1880-9/1881/81-05-07-final.odt>, accessed June 4, 2026

MS annotation by Thiselton-Dyer: ’And with specimen of E. Stricta July 3. 81'. Letter not found.

7/5/81

I feel much beholden to you, dear Mr Dyer, for sending me the flowers of Benthams Euc. stricta,

See M to J. Hooker, 16 January 1881.

which prove that very pardonably two species are confounded by our illustrious friend, under that name. The flowers may belong to E. crebra, a narrow leaved var. of which resembles somewhat E. stricta.

If I had only one leaf , I might determine what species of the Micranthereae or Poranthereae it is which became mixed at Kew with E. Stricta, the latter being strictly renantherous.

I can get nothing printed in the Gov. Office at present, through pressure of parliamentary & Census-Work.

How I do envey Sir Joseph & Dr Gray for their delightful travels through S Europe!

J. Hooker and his wife toured Europe with Asa Gray and his wife in the spring of 1881; see J. Gray (1894), vol. 2, pp. 701-25.

Give them both my expressions of kind regards, when you write.

With best salutation your

Ferd. von Mueller.

We are daily expecting the arrival of the young Princes of Wales.

Albert Victor Christian Edward, Duke of Clarence (1864-92), and George Frederick Ernest Albert (1865-1936), Duke of York (later King George V), were sent in 1879 by their father, Edward, Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII) on a 3-year cruise of the Mediterranean and the British colonies in HMS Bacchante. The Princes visited Albany (WA), then Adelaide, Melbourne, Ballarat, Sydney and Brisbane; see DNB and also Dalton (1886).

Imagine my feelings out of my gardens, where I still could show HRH Prince Alfred round in 1867.