[Diverses communications sont adressées par M. Ramel; elles sont extraites de lettre de MM. Mueller et Wilson, du 25 juillet, et de l'Argus, journal de Melbourne, de la même date.
Dans sa lettre, M. Mueller, après avoir confirmé l'opinion de M. Ramel que l'Oiseau moqueur d'Australie, le Laughing Jacass (Daselo gigantea) pourrait être avantageusement utilisé comme destructeur de Serpents, annonce qu'il vient de faire trois envois ditférents par le même navire. Le premier, répondant au désir que lui avait exprimé M. Ramel, et composé de cinq Cailles du pays et de quatre Goat-suckers, est adressé à la Société impériale d'acclimatation, à laquelle il se propose de faire parvenir prochainement des Native Companions. Le second, destiné à l'établissement de Regent's Park à Londres, se compose de cinq espèces de Poissons vivants du Yara. Le troisième comprend une paire de Bronze wings Pigeons (Colombes d'Australie) et une collection de graines pour le jardin d'acclimatation d'Alger.]
[Various communications are received from Mr Ramel; they are taken from a letter of Messrs Mueller and Wilson of 25 July, and from the Argus, Melbourne newspaper, of the same date.1
In his letter, Mr Mueller, after confirming Mr Ramel's opinion that the Mockingbird of Australia, the Laughing Jackass (Daselo2 gigantea) could be advantageously used as a destroyer of snakes, announces that he has just made three different shipments by the same vessel.3 The first, responding to the wish expressed to him by Mr Ramel, consisting of five Quail of the country and four Goat-suckers, is addressed to the Imperial Acclimatisation Society, to which he proposes shortly to forward Native Companions. The second, intended for the establishment of Regent's Park in London, consists of five species of live fish from the Yarra. The third includes a pair of Bronze-wing Pigeons (Australian doves) and a collection of seeds for the Algiers acclimatisation garden.]
The Argus, 25 July 1861, p. 5 contains an article 'A stroll among the animals', a report of a lecture by Edward Wilson that considered the importation of animals by the Acclimatisation Society of Victoria, for which the lecture was a fund-raising venture. The summary in the French society’s Bulletin (p. 517) emphasized the introduction of salmon using a refrigerated aquarium on the Lincolnshire.
Dacelo.
Lincolnshire, cleared out of Melbourne 22 July 1861 ('Shipping intelligence', Argus, 23 July p. 4), with details of the fish and birds sent in Argus, 27 July, 1861, p. 4, col. g.
Letter not found. The text given here is from Bulletin de la Société Impériale Zoologique d'Acclimatation, vol. 8 (1861), pp. 516-7.
Please cite as “FVM-61-07-25b,” in Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller, edited by R.W. Home, Thomas A. Darragh, A.M. Lucas, Sara Maroske, D.M. Sinkora†, J.H. Voigt† and Monika Wells accessed on