The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: Government Botanists Office ¶ Q-l. ¶ Museum ¶ April 22nd /84 ¶ Dear Baron Mueller ¶ ¶ I hope it is not that your health is worse that I hear so seldom from you

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Physical location:

RB MSS M5, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. 84.04.22

Plant names

Acrostichum Taylori
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Eucalyptus ochrophloia
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Preferred Citation:

Frederick Bailey to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1884-04-22. 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/1880-9/1884/84-04-22-final.odt>, accessed June 5, 2026

MS found with a specimen of (MEL 704020). MS annotation by M: 'Answ 24/4/84 F. v M'. Letter not found.

Government Botanists Office

Q-l.

Qld.

Museum

April 22nd /84

Dear Baron Mueller

I hope it is not that your health is worse that I hear so seldom from you — a gentleman our mutual friend Mr E. Palmer has just given me a few very nice specimens of the Gum you will remember I sent to you some years ago The Paroo Yellow Jacket and you named it — I send them all by this mail to you as they may assist you for a figure in your excellent and most useful work the Eucalyptographia

B80.13.14; B82.13.17; B83.13.07; B84.11.02.

by the bye I have not yet received the 9th decade

B84.04.04.

[neither] the suppnt

supplement? See B84.03.06.

to the census of Austn Plants

You will see by the enclosed report

Report not seen. According to Bailey (1885a), p. 89, he named the species in [Eighteenth ] Report of the Acclimatisation Society of Queensland ... for the year 1883, p. 11.

that I have named the Acrostichum of which I sent you some time back fronds A. Taylori for I have no doubt that the Specimen Mr Bentham refers to where this

were? Bailey is probably referring to the N. Taylor specimens mentioned in Bentham (1863-78), vol. 7, p. 779 under Acrostichum repandum.

Mr A C Gregory's journal

A. Gregory & F. Gregory (1884), which includes A. Gregory's journal of the North Australian Exploring Expedition (pp. 100-94), upon which A. Gregory (1858) is based.

is out but I expect he has sent it on to you he mentions you frequently in it

Hoping that your health is improving

Your much obliged

F. M. Bailey