Melbourne 7/6/95
To the Secretary of the Chicago Academy of Sciences
Honored Sir.
By this months mail I beg to send to the Academy a parcel through a young Danish Engineer, Meldahl,1 and hope it will prove acceptable and lead to regular communications with some members of the Academy and myself.
Very regardfully
your
Ferd. von Mueller
Contents of parcel2
42 species of plants.3
25 species of Victorian Birdseggs comprising about 40 eggs4
Banksia grandis & B. coccinea cones from W. Australia
Collection of Australian seeds.
Parcel of publications including Census of Austral Plants 2nd edition,5 Select Plants 8th edition,6 Wattle Bark Report,7 Linnean Index8 & Melbourne Liedertafel programmes.
Banksia coccinea
Banksia grandis
Meldahl was listed, without further identification, as a passenger booked on R.M.S. Alameda, departing Sydney for San Francisco on 10 June 1895; see Evening news (Sydney), 10 June 1895, p. 6.
List of contents is in a different hand; M has added his note underneath the list. Annotated: 'Rcvd from Baron von Mueller'.
Annotated: 'Acc # 580'.
Annotated: 'Acc # 579 — EGGS'.
B89.12.03.
B91.09.01.
B92.14.02.
B80.04.04.
MS accompanied by envelope addressed: 'On Her Majesty's Service | for Americ mail | The Secretary of the Academy of Sciences | Chicago | North America | Government Botanist | Melbourne, 7 / 6 / 1895'.
Please cite as “FVM-95-06-07b,” 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