The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: Grevillea ¶ ¶ I will examine it carefully; it seems a new species, probably very local and hitherto overlooked If new, I will name it in ¶ honor of yourself ¶ . Later in the season, I should like to...

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Physical location:

Box 1791/15, Williamson Papers, La Trobe Australian Manuscript Collection, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne. 93.10.00

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Grevillea
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Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to Herbert Williamson, 1893-10. 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/1890-6/1893/93-10-00-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

MS in M's hand, annotated in unknown hand: 'Mt Abrupt Oct 93'. MS dated on this basis, and on the fact that M exhibited the new at the meeting of the Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria on 13 November 1893. See also M to H. Williamson, October 1893 (in this edition as 93-10-00a).

I will examine it carefully; it seems a new species, probably very local and hitherto overlooked If new, I will name it in honor of yourself . Later in the season, I should like to see fruit .