Ferdinand von Mueller

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MS found with a specimen of

Eucalyptus alpina

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(MEL 1603570). MS annotation by M: 'Recd & answ 14/8/94'. Letter not found.

NOTE. — All communications on Departmental business to be addressed to the Secretary.

Department of Mines

(ON FOREST BUSINESS),

Melbourne , August 3 1894

Memorandum .

Baron Von Mueller K.C.M.G.

My Dear Baron.

I am sending you some specimens of a tree growing in the Plenty Ranges not far from Silver Creek

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Vic.

— It is new to me and partakes of the characteristics of E. goniocalyx or E. alpina — The leaf is fleshy large, and veins spreading the calyx or capsule is very large for E. goniocalyx and approaches more nearly that of the Blue gum. Knowing that E. alpina is only to be found on Mt William in the Grampians in Victoria I hesitate to place specimens as E. goniocalyx though I am inclined to think it is a variety — under these circumstances I shall be glad to have your most valuable opinion — The specimens enclosed are at your service Should you require more — a tree brought down as a seedling from the Mt by Mr Wilson Junr (now dead) son of the Curator Resident at Yan-Yean

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Yan Yean Reservoir, the source of Melbourne's water supply.

is now growing in the Garden attached to the House at the Reservoir Would you also oblige me by a few notes upon the Tasmanian Eucalyptus I reported at the Melbourne Science Assocn and which you were good enough to call after me,

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Eucalyptus perriniana. At the Melbourne meeting of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science in January 1890, Perrin had exhibited a specimen of a Tasmanian eucalypt that he suspected was a new species; see Report of the meeting, p. 557. Rodway (1894), p. 181, in his description attributed the name to M, who had, he wrote, described it 'at the meeting of the Association of the Advancement of Science in Melbourne, from specimens procured from immature trees not yet in flower'. See also M to L. Rodway, 1 May 1892.

are you still of the opinion that it is new?

I have just looked up your letter

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Letter not found, but see G. Perrin to M, 30 November 1892.

re Eucalypt Tas I find you promised to send notes to R.S. Tas

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Royal Society of Tasmania.

Socty re Eucalypt. Did you do so? if so can you tell me where I will find it — You have a copy of my proceedings R S Tasmania containing Tom Moores notes

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T. Moore (1887).

on Eucalypts found by him near New Norfolk — I should like the book retd

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returned.

if you have finished with it