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Archives, University of New England, Armidale, NSW. 94.06.02

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Ferdinand von Mueller to Alexander Crawford, 1894-06-02. 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/1890-6/1894/94-06-02-final.odt>, accessed June 4, 2026

2/6/94.
It is very cheering to me, dear Mr Crawford, to have again a letter from you, and as on all former occasion full of interest rurally. Probably in the overwhelming work devolving on me in the period of financial distress of our colony, I missed acknowledging one or more letters of yours, and thus our letter-communications came to a stand still.
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Letter not found. The previous known letter in this correspondence series is M to A. Crawford, 1 August 1890 (in this edition as 90-08-01b). The most recent surviving, securely dated letter from Crawford is A. Crawford to M, 6 August 1887, but M's series of replies implies there were other letters that have not been found.
It would be of great interest to fix the names of the beans, peas &c, concerning which you afford such valuable information from your own cultural experience. If you could send samples of the seeds, I would likely be able to make out the exact names. If besides also flowering & fruiting specimens could be obtained —, all the better.
Uncommon fungs will always be welcome. If Gods divine providence spares my life for another year, I may through your circumspectness still get acquainted with the fungs, on which the Lyrebirds feed. Is that one of their principal kind of nutriture? You know the
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, the evergreen true Beech, at all events from the Bellinger-Ranges.
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New England, NSW.
On all other kinds of evergreen beeches occur fungs of the genus
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thus in N. Zeal, Tasm, Vict. and South-America, but as yet no
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is known from your New England Fagus. They look like yellow raspberries, and fall from the branches so that these fungs can be found strewed under the beach
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beech?
trees, which is here principly the case in midsummer You may perhaps recollect to have seen such, now when your special attention is called to it Without wishing to be intrusive I would like to ask as a special favor whether you will send me samples of the so called Gum (Kino) from any of your Eucalypts, of which you know the species name, also the true Gum of any of your
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s true to specific name.
Tell me kindly, what I can send you from here?
I could send you a good collection of seeds of economic plants for change of seeds, also seeds for any flower-garden of yours.
Let me hope that you are happy and well.
With continued friendship
your
Ferd von Mueller