Melbourne, Bot. Garden, Nov. 29/71.
A favorable opportunity has arisen, dear Prof Agassiz, to send you some more fishes by one of the American Woolships. The new wool trade with your country will afford facilities for future transmission such as we never before possessed.
From the enclosed note you will observe that the cask contains 27 fishes one or the other of which may prove new.
There is also an Echidna in the cask.
With regardful salutation, yours,
Baron von Mueller.
Sent — Per Gamecock.
Specimens of Victorian Fish enclosed in keg with spirits and addressed to Prof. Agassiz, Boston.
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Murray Perch Pilchard Flounder Pike Ling Sand Eel White bait John Dory |
Rock Cod Snapper Whiting Roughie Garfish Rock Eel Flat Head |
and also several other species of fish to the total number of twenty-seven: Enclosed also in the cask 1 Native porcupine.
Please cite as “FVM-71-11-29,” 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 25 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/71-11-29