7/9/86
Please accept the byefollowing map of New Guinea, dear Mr Dattari, as it will be useful for your purposes. With Capt Bové I have corresponded some time ago concerning his proposed expedition from Argentina to Graham's Land and other antarctic regions.1
If you have still a few copies of the admirable illustration and description of the magnificent Coleopter2 to spare for me, I shall be particularly grateful to you.
Regardfully your
Ferd. von Mueller.
The Italian naval officer Giacomo Bové sought unsuccessfully to launch an exploring expedition to Antarctica. With funding from the Government of Argentina, he undertook some useful surveying in Tierra del Fuego, but was unable to go any further south.
At the meeting of the Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria, 12 June (sic; July) 1886, the 'hon. librarian reported the receipt of the following donations to the library:— "Remarks on the new Australian beetle, Phalacrognathus Muelleri", with colored plate, by Mr. P. Dattari, from the author' (Victorian naturalist, vol. 3, p. 37). The paper had been read at the meeting of 14 June, at which members present were given lithographic plates (Victorian naturalist, vol. 3, p. 26), but no published version has been found. The genus had been described in Macleay (1886b), p. 474, issued 21 December 1885 (Anonymous (1929)).
MS envelope front: 'P. Dattari Esqr &c &c | Ballarat Cottage | Station Street | North Carlton'. Envelope dated 7 September 1886.
Please cite as “FVM-86-09-07,” 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