To Edward Ramsay   30 January 1880

30/1/80.

 

I have been asked by a friend in Germany, dear Mr Ramsay, what the Gavial is, which occurs in the fresh upper waters of North Australia.1 Crocodilus Pondicherianus is known with our common species from N. W. Australia, so we must have 3 species of this tribe of animals.

I am further asked for a copy of the first vol. of the L.S. of Sydney.2 Could the Society still afford to send me one copy of that particular volume.3

I shall continue to send the Eucalyptus-Atlas as gradually the different decades will appear.4

Regardfully your

Ferd. von Mueller

 

Unnamed eggs of Vict Birds are offered me at 1/6 each. Can you use them at that price?

1
Almost certainly Ferdinand von Krauss. Krauss had received on 26 November 1879 a newspaper cutting from The Queenslander, 5 July 1879, p. 10, that mentioned 'the gavial or rather the Philas Johnstonii (Ramsay)'; see note 4 to F. von Krauss to M, 13 December 1879.
2
Linnean Society of NSW.
3
See also E. Ramsay to M, 4 February 1880, which also includes an answer to the question about crocodiles.
4
B79.13.11 &c. Decade 4 had been published by November 1879; Decade 5 (see B80.13.14) had been published in time to be reviewed in The Queenslander (Brisbane), 3 April 1880, p. 443.

Please cite as “FVM-80-01-30,” 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/80-01-30