To Alexander Macdonald1    1886

Private

Sunday

 

Would it be desirable, dear Mr Macdonald, you to ask Sir Edw Strickland or the Hon. Secr of the R.G.S.2 in Sydney, whether no Zoological specimens from Capt Everill's expedition3 were to come to the share of the Melbourne Museum. Surely there must be a multitude of duplicates, and many must by this time be named.

According to the recent Newspaper notice, none of the specimens, recently arriving here, came from the Fly- & Strickland River Expedition.4 So soon, as the volume on Vict. plants is out,5 (I hope in July,) the researches on the plants of the two Expeditions (under the auspices of the RGS. of Austr.)6 will be resumed, when Sydney and Brisbane will get further sendings, as yet only one sending having been made to either place by me.

Regardfully your

Ferd von Mueller

1
Letter evidently written some time before 20 April 1886, since M’s work on Victorian plants to which he refers (B86.13.01) was available by that date, with copies being circulated at the Field Naturalists’ Club of Victoria.
2
Royal Geographical Society [of Australasia].
3
The Royal Geographical Society of Australasia's New Guinea exploring expedition, 1885, commanded by H. C. Everill.
4
i.e. Everill's expedition. Newspaper report not identified.
5
B86.13.01.
6
The expedition led by Everill, and the expedition under H. O. Forbes to which the Society also contributed.

Please cite as “FVM-86-00-00a,” 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 20 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/86-00-00a