Document information

Physical location:

RB MSS M38, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. 91.12.29

Plant names

Preferred Citation:

William MacDonald to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1891-12-29. 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/1890-6/1891/91-12-29-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

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MS found with a specimen of Karrabina benthamiana (MEL 0650465). The specimen folder also includes on a separate sheet a field note by MacDonald: 'No 158 a tall handsome tree with peculiar fruit from Mr Lynns Yarrohappine [Yarrahapinni?] (a Scrubwood) Decr 29th 91'. To this, 'Macleay River W. Macdonald' has been added in an unknown hand, and a note by M: 'Geissois Benthami, FvM'.
MS annotation by M: 'Answ 16/1/92'. Letter not found.
Kempsey,
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NSW.
December 29th 1891
My Dear Baron Von Mueller
Please receive and kindly name the Specimens herewith under separate cover and numbered in the margin.
I hope you spent your Xmas pleasantly and I wish you a very happy new year.
I have not yet heard anything further re my promised removal to Picton
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NSW. No earlier letter from MacDonald mentioning a possible move to Picton has been found.
Believe me
My dear Baron
Yours faithfully
Wm MacDonald
Baron Von Mueller K.C.M.G
Melbourne.
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The text that follows is written in the rather generous margin that MacDonald had left on the sheet.
154.
Like a myrtus from Yarrahappine
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Yarrahapinni?
road
155
Perhaps a myrtus
156
A small tree in fruit
157.
[Trifoliate] handsome tree is this a
Micrococca

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158
Tall handsome tree with peculiar fruit from Lynns Yarrahappine
159
Hibiscus

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? (indigenous)
160
is this an Angophora?
I sent you this kind before and in your reply you called
Angophora lanceolata

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but I think there must have been an error in the number given?
Wm. McD