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Letter press copy book, p. 316, School of Mines and Industries, Ballarat, Victoria. 82.06.02

Plant names

Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand Krausé to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1882-06-02. 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/1880-9/1882/82-06-02-final.odt>, accessed June 4, 2026

June 2d 1882
Dear Sir —
I have been so far unsuccessful in procuring any more of the sub-fossil conifer wood at Haddon,
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See A. Berry to M, 11 May 1882.
but I send by this post the only specimen of the kind which remained in our museum, happy to subordinate our own interest to the greater cause for which you labor.
The two specimens of banksia (?) cone which accompany the wood are said to occur with the spondylostrobus, but I doubt it.
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M had discussed in B82.05.02, p. 44, under
Spondylostrobus

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smythii, specimens of this fossil wood that Krausé had sent him earlier.
I shall, however, take an early opportunity of visiting the mine and note the stratographical order of the beds lately exposed.
I also forward a slab from the beds at Haddon. The sandy clay layers which rest upon the gold drift, and are themselves covered either by basalt or clay and gravel drifts of newer pliocene age, are clearly a lacrustine deposit. I shall be glad to have your opinion on the nature of these plant remains and to know whether they are allied to those found at Daylesford or Bacchus Marsh.
Believe me, dear Sir,
Yours truly
F. M. Krausé
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See M to F. Krausé, June 1882 (in this edition as 82-06-00a).
Baron Von Mueller
K.C.M.G. M & Ph.D. etc. etc. etc.