Ferdinand von Mueller

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MS annotation by M: 'Answ 14/2/90'. Letter not found.

Cambewarra, Shoalhaven, New South Wales,

Feb. 8th 1890.

Honoured Sir,

I take the liberty of forwarding you a small parcel containing the leaves, fruit and bark of a tree that is very scarce here. This tree does not produce fruit very often; I have been watching for it ever since I became acquainted with Mr Baurlen;

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Bäuerlen.

the tree is not know

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known?

by him. I have had better specimens of the bark in my possession than those I now send you; the largest specimen, I have had for years beside me; the small one was gathered yesterday. I have manufactured some fair specimens of corks from the bark, with an old razor blade; when it can be had large enough it makes very good floats for fishing nets.

Accept my best thanks for the copy of your work on "Select Extra-Tropical Plants."

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Presumably B88.12.01.

I have read it twice over — it is one of the most readable books I ever perused. When the present ignorant money-grubling generation have dissolved into their primitive mud, and a more enlightened race inhabits Australia, your works will come to the front — and remain there.

I enclose a cutting

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Cutting not found.

by the Rev. David Landsborough, of Kilmarnock Scotland, they seem to be doing their best to naturalise the eucalypts in Scotland.

The Baron Von Mueller.

Melbourne.