The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: 30/5/88 ¶ ¶ Should experiments have shown, dear Mr Dyer, that Acacia decurrens, A. mollissima and A dealbata are hardy in the Channel Islands, would then on poor ground there Wattle-Culture perhaps b...

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RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1882-90, f. 254. 88.05.30a

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Ferdinand von Mueller to William Thiselton-Dyer, 1888-05-30 [88.05.30a]. 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/1880-9/1888/88-05-30a-final.odt>, accessed May 7, 2026

30/5/88

Date stamped: Royal Gardens Kew 7. Jul. 88. Annotation by Thiselton-Dyer: And 10.7.88 (letter not found).

Should experiments have shown, dear Mr Dyer, that , A. mollissima and A dealbata are hardy in the Channel Islands, would then on poor ground there Wattle-Culture perhaps become thrifty? Very possibly you would gain thus there quicker tan-bark of superior strenght than any other now obtained.

Regardfully

your

Ferd. von Mueller.

Does not occur in British India?

Does not occur in British India? is marked with a red pencil line in the margin, and annotated in pencil by Daniel Oliver at the botom of the sheet: I see that Wallich got it on the Taong-dong (Ava) and there is a specimen laid in "East Indies" in Sir W Hooker's hand — on an Australian sheet. No clear evidence as to British India. Taong-dong and Ava are in Myanmar (Burma).

(Sensu Bentham) has just been discovered in Australia.

I think that some of the Rubies of Australia are Garnets (Granaten) What Mr Gregory and myself found on Hooker's and Sturt's Creek in 1856,

During the North Australian Exploring Expedition.

we regarded as Garnets of superior quality; thus they were mentioned in the diaries of ours.

M's exploration diary has not been found; no mention of gemstones is made in A. Gregory (1858) for January to March 1856, when the party was exploring the area around Hooker and Sturt Creeks. 'Minute garnets' in the bed of the Gilbert River (Qld) are, however, mentioned in the entry for 22 September 1856, p. 107.

Perhaps I never thanked you for the sending of the last icones

i.e. Hooker’s Icones plantarum .

The copy from Dulau I distribute into the set of arranged plates.