7/4/91
This day, dear Mr Hedley, were posted for your inspection and examination the two shells, obtained by the Mt Yule Expedition.1 They would have been rendered accessible to you earlier, but it was desirable, that all the zoologic specimens, obtained during the Expedition, should first be exhibited at a meeting of the R.G.S.A.2 here. Such meeting took place last Friday, so I forward the two shells now, but as they are the property of the Vict. Branch of the RGSA, which voted £300 - - for the Expedition, I must request you to return the two specimens so soon as you have finished your study of them3
Regardfully
your
Ferd. von Mueller.
When does the next meeting of the LS of NSW4 take place?
Papua New Guinea. The expedition, November 1890 – February 1891, under the auspices of the Administrator of British New Guinea and led by George Belford, received a subsidy of £300 from the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia, Victorian Branch, and reached the summit on 25 December 1890 (Argus, 23 February 1891, p. 5, col. c; W. Taylor (1891), pp. 445-6).
Royal Geographical Society of Australasia.
Hedley (1892) was read on 15 March 1891 and issued in September 1891, and thus does not include details of the Mt Yule specimens. No reference by Hedley to them has been found.
Linnean Society of New South Wales.
Please cite as “FVM-91-04-07b,” 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