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Herbarium Department, letters & packets despatched, Queensland Herbarium, Brisbane. 91.05.19a

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Frederick Bailey to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1891-05-19 [91.05.19a]. 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/1890-6/1891/91-05-19a-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

1
Letter not found; item is a register entry only, dated 19 May 1891.
[Re considering to change the name of E. odoratissima to E. Fitzgeraldi
2
In Bailey (1891a), p. 12, following a formal description of
Eugenia Fitzgeraldi

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under M's and his names jointly, Bailey wrote:
While these pages were being printed—following my usual custom—I sent to Baron Mueller for the Victorian herbarium specimens of all the new species recorded. From these he found the new Eugenia, which I had named E. odoratissima, was identical with a species from the Richmond River [NSW], which he had described, but not published under the name of E. Fitzgeraldi. I have therefore, at Baron Mueller's request, allowed my name to lapse that this lovely species may bear the name of our mutual friend and fellow worker, R. D. Fitzgerald, the author of an excellently illustrated monograph of the Australia Orchideae.
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