The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: [Our illustration (p. 105) ¶ 89-06-00c_image01.jpg The illustration is captioned 'Fig. 16—A tree bridge in Gippsland, New South Wales'. ¶ exhibits a primitive mode of forming a bridge by felling a h...

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Ferdinand von Mueller to the Gardeners' Chronicle, 1889-06 [89.06.00c]. 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/1880-9/1889/89-06-00c-final.odt>, accessed May 15, 2026

Letter not found. For the text given here, see 'Tree bridge over a ravine', Gardeners' chronicle , 27 July 1889, p. 107. It is dated to June as the latest likely date that it could have been sent to have been reported in this issue.

[Our illustration (p. 105)

The illustration is captioned 'Fig. 16—A tree bridge in Gippsland, New South Wales'.

exhibits a primitive mode of forming a bridge by felling a huge , and allowing the trunk to fall over a ravine of considerable width, in Gipp's Land, Lachland Territory, New South Wales.

'Lachland Territory' has not been identified; Gippsland is an eastern region of Victoria.

Baron F. Von Mueller, to whom our thanks are due for forwarding the photograph from which the figure was engraved, and which also shows a noble Tree Fern ( ), in writing to the Argus in March

Misreading of May?

last, from South Yarra, concerning the big trees of Victoria, remarks : — ]

The remainder of the article is a transcription of M to the Editor of the Argus , 23 May 1889, i.e. B89.05.01.