To Friedrich Wöhler   5 November 1868

Bot Gart. Melb. 5/11/68.

 

Unlängst, edler Herr, habe ich Gelegenheit gehabt eine schöne Reihe von Kupfererzen aus der neuen Mine von York's Peninsula zu erwerben; und ich habe meinen Freund den Oberstudienrath Prof Dr Krauss in Stuttgart gebeten, sollte diese Sammlung wohlbehalten ankommen, einige der schönen u meist doppelt vorhandenen Erzstufen dem Cabinet, dem Sie so leuchtend vorstehen, zu überlassen.

Diese Erze unterscheiden sich in mancherlei Weise von denen der Burra Mine, die Ihnen wahrscheinlich vor Jahren, wie letztere so ergiebig war, zugegangen sind.

Bittend mich den wohlwollenden Herrn Prof Zachariae, Keferstein, Bartling & Grisebach freundlich empfehlen zu wollen bleibe ich Ihr Sie hoch Ehrender

Ferd von Mueller

 
 
 

Botanic Garden,

Melbourne,

5 November 1868.

 

Recently, noble Sir, I had the opportunity of purchasing a fine series of copper ores from the new mine on York Peninsula,1 and I have asked my friend, Professor Dr Krauss in Stuttgart,2 if this collection arrives safely, to let the Museum which you so illustriously direct have some of the fine pieces of ore that are represented mostly in duplicate.

These ores differ in many ways from those of the Burra mine,3 with which you were probably supplied years ago while the latter was so productive.

Asking that you would kindly commend me to the benevolent Professors Zachariae, Keferstein, Bartling, and Grisebach,4 I remain very respectfully your

Ferd. von Mueller.

1
Mining of rich deposits of copper at Moonta and Wallaroo on the Yorke Peninsula, SA, began in the mid-1860s.
2
See M to Krauss, 7 October 1868.
3
SA.
4
Keferstein, Bartling and Grisebach were all professors at Gottingen; Zachariae has not been identified.

Please cite as “FVM-68-11-05a,” 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 26 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/68-11-05a