Document information

Physical location:

RB MSS M38, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. 92.10.20

Plant names

Preferred Citation:

William MacDonald to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1892-10-20. 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/1890-6/1892/92-10-20-final.odt>, accessed June 4, 2026

Kempsey,
1
NSW.
October 20th 1892
My Dear Baron Von Mueller
Herewith will you kindly receive and re examine duplicate specimens of some of those which I forwarded in my last Collection as they do not appear to correspond
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190 —
2
See W. MacDonald to M, 9 October 1892.
Corkwood, fruit a blue drupe which you have called
3
Lauracea?
?
208 —
A beautiful tree for ornamental purposes like a scented like anniseed or Paregoric which you have called ?
192 —
? is this correct?
195 —
omitted (a pretty bronze flowering vine)
209 —
Like an acacia from Bellingen
4
NSW.
which you have named ? perhaps I put in a wrong branchlet?
210
5
This entry has been added in the margin.
A handsome tree 30 ft & 12 inches diameter light colored smooth bark white flowers from Mr Rudders land
I will endeavour to collect fruits for you without fail
I am sorry to trouble you again with these specimens but our numbers do not quite correspond
Yours very truly
Wm MacDonald
Baron Sir F Von Mueller
KCM.G
Melbourne.