The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: Department of Mines, ¶ Melbourne ¶ , ¶ 20th-10- ¶ 189 ¶ 4 ¶ Memorandum. ¶ Dear Baron von Mueller ¶ ¶ One of the trainees of the Geol survey — Mr Geo Foster now engaged in the "whipsticks" north of B...

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Physical location:

RB MSS M1, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. 94.10.20

Preferred Citation:

James Stirling to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1894-10-20. 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/1890-6/1894/94-10-20-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

Department of Mines,

Melbourne , 20th-10-1894

Memorandum.

Dear Baron von Mueller

One of the trainees of the Geol survey — Mr Geo Foster now engaged in the "whipsticks" north of Bendigo — is collecting the native plants of the locality This young man is a son of the present minister of Mines Hon Hy Foster MP and I want to encourage him in Botanical studies Would you kindly name the plants for him from time to time & oblige

Yours faithfully

James Stirling

MS accompanied by unrelated notes by Stirling (the second here is inside an empty specimen sheet): 'on wooded moist slopes of Mt Koscuisko western aspect — 6000 feet elevation | […] | 3.1.84'; and '— Shrub 7 feet high — | Habitat : Junction of Livingstone Ck & Mitta Mitta river on river banks. Alluvium — Alt. 1600 feet. | J Stirling 1-11-80'. The herbarium folder is marked on the front in an unknown hand: 'Flora of Australian Alps | Phanerogamea | No 248' and contains a typed label: 'Westringia sp. aff. eremicola Benth. var. quaterna Benth. | James Stirling'.