From Ferdinand von Mueller to the Imperial Society of Naturalists of Moscow   [1866]

[Mr. le Chevalier Dr. Ferdinand Muller de Melbourne annonce l'expédition d'une caisse contenant 2 squelettes complets d'un homme et d'une femme de la tribu habitant le désert de Murray et de quelques autres ossemens séparés des indigènes noirs de ces contrées. — Mr Müller a joint à cet envoi quelques armes de la tribu de Yarra ainsique des fruits de Banksia serrata.]

[Dr Ferdinand Müller of Melbourne announces the despatch of a box containing 2 complete skeletons, of a man and a woman, from the tribe inhabiting the Murray desert, and several other separated bones of the black natives of these parts. Mr Müller has included in this sending some arms of the Yarra tribe and also some fruit of Banksia serrata.]

Banksia serrata

Letter not found. For the text given here, see Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou, vol. 39 (1866), Séances, p. 84. M's letter was read at a meeting of the Society on 17 November 1866. See also M to the Imperial Society of Naturalists of Moscow, 1867 (in this edition as 67-00-00h). The arrival of the box was reported at the Society's meeting on 21 September 1867 (Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou, vol. 40 (1867), Séances, p. 65).

Please cite as “FVM-66-00-00b,” 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 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/66-00-00b