University1
17/2/62
My dear Dr Müller
Deshayes subgenus of shells Capsella was established in 1854 in Proceedings Zoolog. Soc. London.2 If you are thinking of the double use for plants & animals I have long found the number doubly […]3 between the vegetable & animal Kingdom growing so happily large, that I feel convinced (and have acted accordingly for many years) that we must rest satisfied with the improbability of serious confusion, and accept the [risks]4 so far
As for our rival claim on the Meteorite I would suggest the good old test of single combat and walking on red hot plough shares to see with whom the right lies — unless indeed the British Museum would save it by sending me Abels one.
Ever my dear Dr Müller
very truly yours
Frederick M'Coy.5
i.e. University of Melbourne.
Deshayes (1854), p. 347.
Heyne's copy at the Museum of Victoria has 'employed', but this is not a plausible reading of the original writing.
Heyne's copy has 'names', but this is not a plausible reading of the original writing.
See also M to F. McCoy, 14 February 1862, and M to C. Darling, 28 November 1863. See also Lucas et al. (1994).
For other copies of this letter, see bundle 10, no. 12, unit 11, VPRS 1095, Public Record Office, Victoria, and Museum of Victoria, the latter having been made by Ernst Heyne.
Please cite as “FVM-62-02-17,” 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