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RB MSS M46, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. 89.03.11a

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William Woolls to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1889-03-11 [89.03.11a]. 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/1880-9/1889/89-03-11a-final.odt>, accessed June 4, 2026

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MS found with a specimen of Buckhinghamia celsissima, (MEL 1538607), supplied by Woolls in 1889.
Burwood
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NSW.
March 11 /89
My dear Baron,
Thanks for you generous gift of seeds. I will use them judiciously.
I have communicated with Mr Burton.
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Burton has not been further identified.
He is a very good fellow. The Editor of the S. M. H. has not yet inserted the notice of the "Key",
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Woolls's unsigned review of B86.04.05 and B88.11.02 appeared in Sydney morning herald, 13 March 1889, p. 4.
but I suppose he will do so after some delay. Public attention, however, has been drawn to it by the S. Mail .
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Sydney mail, unsigned review, 2 March 1889, p. 423.
I returned the copy of your admirable address, as you had sent one before.
The first part of your Botanical Article has appeared in No. 38 of the Picturesque Atlas.
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B86.13.22: 'Abridged from an ampler Paper contributed by Baron von Mueller, K.C.M.G., M.&Ph.D, F.R.S.—Ed’, p. 772] .
It reads well, but I wish all of it could have been inserted.
Why do you in your list make
Brachychiton

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neuter? Χιτων is masculine.
The enclosed flower is now out in Mr Catlett's garden. Turner
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Fred Turner?
calls it
Buckinghamia

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, but it seems to me to differ from that genus in the shape of the glands & in having filaments or staminodia. Last years fruit resembles that of
Grevillea

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& has the seeds surrounded by a narrow wing. Do you think that cultivation has changed the character of the flower?
Yours very sincerely
William Woolls