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The accompanying article is 'AN OPEN POLAR SEA IN THE NORTH OF SIBERIA. Contributed by Baron von Mueller. Translated from the Australische Deutsche Zeit.' The original German-language article appeared in the Melbourne edition of the Australische Zeitung, 29 February 1872; M enclosed a clipping of it in M to A. Petermann, 28 February 1872 (in this edition as 72-02-28a). (M presumably waited until he obtained the clipping before sealing the envelope containing his letter.) The article gives an account of the results of an expedition by 'Lieutenants Meyprecht [printer's error for Weyprecht?] and Payer of the K. K. [i.e. Austrian] Navy' with a crew of Norwegians, and their discovery of a 'whaling ground, that of the sea north of Nova Zembla [i.e. Novaya Zemlya]'.
Letter not found. The text given here is from the Herald (Fremantle), 30 March 1872, p. 3.
Please cite as “FVM-72-03-00c,” 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