To Edward Ramsay   16 August 1891

16/8/91

 

Let me thank you, dear Dr Ramsay, for the attentiveness, shown concerning the Dendrolagus, the specimen now having come back safely into my hands. I had some misgivings about Mr French's idea, that it was a new sp.1 But as you telegraphed, that the illustration in Lumholtz's work was quite exact, I could not help observing the difference of the color of the belly and the difference in the shape of the tail-end. We have beyond the few Papuan birds, sent to you for naming, only 4 others, which we have here identified with exactitude, and we have no duplicates.2

Let me hope, that you feel better now

Regardfully

your

Ferd. von Mueller.

 

How is our Austral Science-Nestor Dr Bennett? I never hear from him now.3

1
See M to E. Ramsay, 14 July 1891.
2
See M to E Ramsay, 20 May 1891.
3
George Bennett had celebrated his 87th birthday on 31 January 1891.

Please cite as “FVM-91-08-16,” 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 27 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/91-08-16