To Edward Ramsay   22 July 1880

22/7/80

 

I am obliged to you, dear Mr Ramsay, that you will remind Mr Goldie of his obligations to me.1 Since the ruinous disintegration of my Department my last private property is spent, & I can no longer afford to throw money away, and must endeavour to reimburse myself through new collections of Goldie's. If he had nothing else, he might at least have sent some Zoolog. Duplicates.

I will be happy to write to Prof Owen, with whom I also exchange letters occasionally, that I will gladly second your election at the R.GS.,2 and indeed I will be most ready to be your sponsor at the R.S.3 also, but it is best for you to wait with your candidature til next year, as meanwhile you would have shown still more independent literary work. It was through my proposal, that Prof McCoy became elected this year.

If you can identify my name with any new form in the Queensland Fauna, I should be pleased, as I have aided to elucidate the Flora. I never asked anything of the sort of Count Castelnau, though he had lots of Beetles from me and he was put into communication with all my amateur collectors.4

Regardfully your

Ferd. von Mueller.

1
Ramsay's letter not found, but see M to E. Ramsay 9 July 1880 and 15 October 1881.
2
Royal Geographical Society. See M to R. Owen, 21 July 1880.
3
Royal Society. Ramsay was never nominated for election to the Royal Society of London.
4
Although M was eponymized in many zoological names, neither Ramsay nor Castelnau were authors of such names; see Lucas (2013c).

Please cite as “FVM-80-07-22,” 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 28 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/80-07-22