To Edward Ramsay   5 March 1886

5/3/86.

 

When writing to you hurriedly yesterday,1 dear Dr Ramsay, I forgot two things.

1, Will you kindly subscribe for me £1 to the bust of the hon. W. Macleay; I will include it in the money-order for the parrots.2

2, Can you kindly send me an extra-copy of that part of the L.S. proceedings of N.S.W., which contains the notes of Mikluho-Maclay on his utilitarian plants of New Guinea, lately published (a few months ago)3

Regardfully

your

Ferd. von Mueller

1
See M to E. Ramsay, 4 March 1886 (in this edition as 86-03-04a). The Linnean Society of NSW was collecting subscriptions to honour the services to science of Sir William Macleay by commissioning a bust for the Society’s library. The preparation of the bust, executed by the sculptor Achille Simonetti (1838-1900), was somewhat delayed but it was eventually unveiled on 22 June 1889; see Australian town and country journal, 29 June 1889, p. 44.
2
See M to E. Ramsay, 18 February 1886.
3
Miklouho-Maclay (1886), read 26 August 1885; B86.13.25 is included as an appendix to the paper.

Please cite as “FVM-86-03-05b,” 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/86-03-05b