To Richard Owen   25 October 1866

Melbourne bot. Garden,

25/10/66

Dear & honored Sir,

Simultaneously with this note you will receive a small phial containing the impregnated ovum of an Echidna, sent to me by a friend, who obtained it from an animal he captured [&] opened about the middle of this month. Dr Rudall and myself thought to send it to you unexamined, especially as we have no other parts of the animal to accompany the ovum.1

Ever with profound regards your

Ferd. Mueller.

1
The Zoological Accessions Register/ Mammalia-Reptilia-Pisces /1861.9.9-1890.30.12of the Natural History Museum, London, contains no entry for the receipt of any Echidna ovum in the years 1866 to 1869.

Please cite as “FVM-66-10-25b,” 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 28 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/66-10-25b