To Edward Ramsay   9 May 1882

9/5/82.

 

I feel, dear Mr Ramsay, that I ought not to send merely a formal receipt for the splendid enumeration of the Crustacea by Mr Haswell,1 but should specially express my thanks to the trustees of the Sydney-Museum for the attention shown me in presenting this volume; and more, every acknowledgement is due to the trustees for the measures taken by them, to see through the able Mr Haswell and through your own excellent supervision such large material of Crustacea brought together and elucidated. In former years I have responded to the calls of zoologic friends in Europe, — some friends since my University time — to furnish them with specimens of Australian Crustacea, but if I should acquire additional material now, I will forward it for elaboration to your grand institution.2

Regardfully your

Ferd. von Mueller

1
Haswell (1882).
2
M was not consistent in his support for the Sydney zoologists: see specifically for crustacea, M to F. von Krauss, 9 August 1884, and more generally, Lucas (2018), especially n. 45, and Lucas (2013a), pp. 22-3.

Please cite as “FVM-82-05-09,” 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/82-05-09