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Physical location:

RB MSS M46, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. 88.08.24

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Preferred Citation:

William Woolls to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1888-08-24. 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/1880-9/1888/88-08-24-final.odt>, accessed June 10, 2026

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MS found with a specimen of Acacia salicina (MEL 2083058). M has annotated the back of MS: 'Acacia 1888. Rev Dr Woolls'.
Burwood
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NSW.
Aug 24 /88
My dear Baron,
I send you the first part of Review from the S. Mail :
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Sydney mail and New South Wales advertiser, 25 August 1888, p. 380 has the first part of an unsigned review of Decades 9-11 of M's Iconography of Australian species of Acacia and cognate genera (B88.13.01), the review was concluded in the issue of 1 September, p. 436. See also W. Woolls to M, 11 March 1889.
the rest will follow next week. I have also sent a short notice to the S. M. Herald .
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Sydney morning herald, 12 September 1888, p. 7, has a short unsigned review.
Where does your
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occur?
I send you a few leaves & an unripe of pod
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'unripe of pod': a word may have been omitted, or 'of' is superfluous.
from a fine spreading tree growing in a friend's garden. He says the seed came from the Macquarie.
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Macquarie River, NSW.
I fancy it must be your A . iteaphylla , but I have not seen the flower.
Hoping that you are now well again
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M had fallen off a tram and injured his knee.
Yours very sincerely
W. Woolls
P.S. I have not used the catheter for a week, & am doing well