27/7/96.
By this mail of the week, dear Prof Milne-Edwards, I send a small case with some few eggs of rare birds of North-Eastern Australia. I hope to have by the French Mail-Steamer an other case ready, but am not certain yet, as some Minerals, which I expected, have not yet arrived. In the case will be also a parcel of my works, so far as they were yet obtainable for the Library of the Institut. I have not yet heard from Prof. Lacroix, whether the last minerals proved of Interest to his collection in the Galleries of your great museum1
Let me hope, that you are happy and well
With regardful remembrance your
Ferd von Mueller
A. Milne-Edwards to M., 1 September 1896, reported that Lacroix was travelling, but had been satisfied with the Broken Hill specimens.
Please cite as “FVM-96-07-27,” 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