Document information

Physical location:

ML MSS.562, Letter to E. P. Ramsay 1862-91, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney. 79.07.24a

Plant names

Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to Edward Ramsay, 1879-07-24 [79.07.24a]. R.W. Home, Thomas A. Darragh, A.M. Lucas, Sara Maroske, D.M. Sinkora, J.H. Voigt and Monika Wells (eds), Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller, <https://vmcp.rbg.vic.gov.au/id/79-07-24a>, accessed June 13, 2025

24./7./79.
The palm-fruits sent by you, dear Mr Ramsay, are seemingly those of a Kentia, and distinct from those of K. acuminata, so far as I can see, but as not even the remnants of a calyx are left with these fruits, I must ask you for additional material. Can you not procure leaves & flowers, and give me some information concerning the habit & hight of this palm. I will be happy to name it after you.
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M did not name a Kentia after Ramsay.
It seems extraordinary, that Armstrong,
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John Armstrong, d. 1847.
who stayed on the expense of Kew Garden for several years at Port Essington, never secured material of this palm for description.
A collection of Manna with flowering & fruiting branches of the trees, on which it occurs, would be very acceptable. I never saw Manna on any other species than E. viminalis, and never exuding from the stem
I have soon to work on palms again; so additional material of this new one will be welcome.
Regardfully your
Ferd. von Mueller.
Can you kindly ascertain at your L.S.,
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Linnean Society of NSW.
which of my works are there, as I wish to make a sending in return for your society's sending to me (of its publications)
Can the volumes of your entomologi[c] Society be purchase[d] if so, at what pric[e.]
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The entomological society was the precursor of the Linnean Society of New South Wales.