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RB MSS M5, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. 90.06.19

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Preferred Citation:

Frederick Bailey to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1890-06-19. 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/1890-6/1890/90-06-19-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

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MS found with a specimen of Canarium muelleri (MEL 2290905). MS annotation by M: 'Answ 25/6/90'. Letter not found. Bailey's letter probably accompanied the item, 'Packet of spms asked for', registered by him on 20 June 1890 as having been sent (Herbarium Department, letters & packets despatched, Queensland Herbarium, Brisbane).
Colonial Botanists Office
Queensland.
Department of Agriculture,
William Street
Brisbane, June 19th 1890
Dear Baron Mueller
I was glad to receive your letter this morning
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Letter not found; probably the item summarized as 'for specimens', entered by Bailey on 20 June 1890 in his register of letters received (Herbarium Department, letters & packets received, Queensland Herbarium, Brisbane).
I was just thinking of sending you a specimen of a remarkable tree from the Johnstone River
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All places named by Bailey are in Qld.
to which I purposed attaching your name
Canarium Muelleri

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. It was sent to me by Dr Mr T. Bancroft
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Thomas L. Bancroft.
when I was collecting woods for the colonial and Indian Exhibition
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Colonial and Indian Exhibition, London, 1886.
and I did not use the log for at the time only receiving shoots in buds I thought better to wait for fruit, this or fully developed flowers I have not been able to get to publish from the material to hand, the tree exudes a large quantity of a liquid of the consistency of honey with a strong turpentine odour. I am having it analysed to see if it is like Black Dammar the product of C. strictum, or it probably is nearer to the substance obtained from C. commune
Yours very truly
F. M. Bailey
I enclose specimens of
Scleria ustulata

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. The plant the first of which I sent you some years ago (Bancroft Johnstone River) under No 20 is I find your
Apodytes brachystylis

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In my catalogue
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Bailey (1890a).
now in the printers hands I will give description of fruit I have tephrosia polyzyga 20 m from Charters Towers Croton tomentosum
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C. tomentosus? However, this species is not known from Australia (P. Forster (2003)).
70 m from Cape York Peninsula and a new Millettia — (M. pilipes) from the Johnstone River, this was sent to you by me three years ago —
I have a fragment from the north of the
Melhania abyssinica

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A. Rich. but whether indigenous or naturalised I cannot as yet say but think the latter
F.M.B.