8/1/78.
Last mail, dear Mr Ramsay, I have learnt from my friend Dr W. Sonder,1 that there will be no difficulty to make you a corr. member of the Hamburgian Naturalists Society,2 if you present some specimens to their zoolog. collection. The sending you could effect to Blackett & Co., Cox's Quay, Lower Thames Street, London, but the consignment ought to arrive free in Hamburg. If you are once enrolled in one of the continental societies, the membership of others will be more easily gained. Is Mr Lawes in Sydney? Goldie sent nothing, absolutely nothing, altho' he drew on me for £50. But let this be between us & Mr Lawes. He might have given me at least some zoologic specimens.
I wished, I could get a passage in one of Capt Commodore Hoskins fregattes to N Guinea myself. The Commodore wrote me a very friendly letter on the subject.3 Is there no chance?
Regardfully
Ferd. von Mueller.
Dr Moffitt,4 whose acquaintance I had the great pleasure to make, also interests himself to get me a chance to proceed to New Guinea
Please cite as “FVM-78-01-08,” 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 23 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/78-01-08