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Physical location:

ML MSS.562, Letters to E. P. Ramsay 1862-91, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney. 86.10.07

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Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to Edward Ramsay, 1886-10-07. 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/86-10-07>, accessed September 11, 2025

7/10/86
I am delighted to hear, dear Dr Ramsay,
1
See E. Ramsay to M, 2 October 1886.
that your persevering search for the
Claudea Bennettiana

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has met with success; and you shall have full litterary credit for this rediscovery, and I shall gladly describe the fruit and male organs and any gemmae, when found. As yet we have here only imperfect material of the fruit of the allied
Cliftonaea pectinata

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; but some day probably it will fall also to my share, to make the fructifying organs of that rare Alga fully known.
In the overwhelming work of the Department I must have overlooked (though glancing on about 30 science-periodicals) Mr Caldwells detail records on the foecundation of the Monotremata. Where are they to be found?
2
William Caldwell's principal paper on the reproduction of the Monotremata had not yet been published; see Caldwell (1887). However, Caldwell (1884) is a published report of his lecture to the Royal Society of NSW on 17 December 1884.
Can I send you anything from here?
How much did you kindly subscribe on my behalf to the Macleay-Testimonial?
3
The Linnean Society of NSW was collecting subscriptions to honour the services to science of Sir William Macleay by commissioning a bust for the Society’s library. The preparation of the bust, executed by the sculptor Achille Simonetti (1838-1900), was somewhat delayed but it was eventually unveiled on 22 June 1889; see Australian Town and Country Journal, 29 June 1889, p. 44.
It escaped my memory, and I am eager to send you a postoffice-order accordingly.
Regardfully
your
Ferd. von Mueller