Document information

Physical location:

RB MSS M38, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. 93.11.21

Plant names

Preferred Citation:

William MacDonald to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1893-11-21. 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/1890-6/1893/93-11-21-final.odt>, accessed May 10, 2026

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MS found with a specimen of
Eucalyptus

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tereticornis (MEL 707276). MS annotation by M: Answ 25/11/93'. Letter not found.
Kempsey.
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NSW.
Nov 21st 93
My Dear Baron
Eucalyptus

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(Drooping Gum)
(Gry Gum)
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Marginal annotation by MacDonald.
Herewith please receive another specimen of
Eucalyptus

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like grey gum rough grey red & yellow shades of bark, a tree 60 ft or up to 80 and seldom more than 2 ft 6 diameter wood hard red & very good leaves very small and inclined to droop
I think it is the same species as the
Eucalyptus

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I sent you last year and which you have not yet informed me of.
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See W. MacDonald to M, 4 December 1892 (in this edition as 92-12-04a).
it grows in poor gravelly soil slate formation 50 to 80 ft above sea level.
Yours faithfully
Wm MacDonald
I will convey your message to the Dr re submerged weeds and endeavor to send you some soon
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Brabazon Casement was a doctor in Kempsey and referred to in W. MacDonald to M, 26 September 1892 (in this edition as 92-09-26a).
Baron Sir F. Von Mueller
K.C.M.G