The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: 12/1/88 ¶ ¶ The Acacia, allied to A. polybatrya, ¶ dear Dr Woolls, was first brought under my notice by Mr F. M. Bailey and so I named it at once after him informing him to that effect. I placed it ...

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Physical location:

Ad 46 Dawson papers, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney. 88.01.12

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Acacia Baileyana
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Acacia polybatrya
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Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to William Woolls, 1888-01-12. 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/1880-9/1888/88-01-12-final.odt>, accessed June 4, 2026

MS is a copy of M's original letter in an unknown hand.

12/1/88

The Acacia, allied to A. polybatrya,

Copyist's error for A. polybotrya? See M to W. Woolls, 14 December 1887.

dear Dr Woolls, was first brought under my notice by Mr F. M. Bailey and so I named it at once after him informing him to that effect. I placed it under that name before the Royal Society here some weeks ago with a description exhibiting with notes a few other new plants, so that the whole will appear still in the volume of our R. S. here for 1887.

Acacia baileyana, exhibited with a description at the meeting of the Royal Society of Victoria held on 15 December 1887 (see B88.07.03).

Soon after I had the specimens from you,

Two collections received from Woolls in October 1887 and December 1887 are in MEL.

I received also independently others from Wagga Wagga collected by Mr Garland there.

NSW. See J. Garland to M, 1888 (in this edition as 88-00-00a), no. 43.

Mr Bailey's came probably from that part of New England

NSW.

nearest Queensland; but he is not sure about the locality or the origin of the tree, cultivated at Brisbane. The specimens from all localities together have afforded sufficient material for well illustrating the A. Baileyana for the 11th Decade of the Acacias.

B88.13.01.

I am quite willing to name some other new plants after Mr Dawson

Woolls's friend John Dawson, amongst whose papers the present MS is now located. A collection of bark and seed only by Dawson, without locality, is in MEL.

and his nephews.

Regardfully your

Ferd Von Mueller

I could not well recede from the original naming. Kindly be vigilant for s and other floating or submerged plants. — Should clergymen and others from the more central regions of Australia visit you, please ask them particularly to send specimens in fl or fr

flower or fruit.

of Acacias also of Aquatics. Can you have a boat excursion after water plants?