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From:
Frederick McCoy
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
28 March 1859
Source of text:
Director’s letterbooks, MVS 2/1 1, p. 156, Melbourne Museum
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Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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A request for Sims’s opinion on whether a collection of back papers of the Family Herald would be suitable to send to ARW, if they were cheaply bound into a volume. Mrs Wallace regrets that Thomas and Fanny Sims live too far away to be able visit her more often.
ARW makes “a few remarks and criticisms” of Sclater’s paper [Sclater, P. L. 1859. The Geographical Distribution of Birds. Ibis, 1: 449-454.]. He challenges the areas that Sclater proposes for his “six grand zoological provinces” by redefining the regions. ARW discusses the geology and zoology of these areas.