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Archive box 00323, Melbourne Museum, Melbourne. 90.05.21Preferred Citation:
Ferdinand von Mueller to Frederick McCoy, 1890-05-21. 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/90-05-21>, accessed September 11, 2025
1
MS black-edged; M's brother-in-law George Doughty died on 26 March 1890.
By this mail, dear Prof M'Coy, Herr Bau-Rath Koch of Güstrow writes,
that he is engaged in packing the fossil Conchilia &c, and that he was shedding tears,
when packing the beautiful Volutas. He suggests, that it might be advisable, to send
case after case, when packed. Perhaps it will be best, to leave the detail-measures
about the transmission to Sir Graham Berry and Herr Koch. Some packing is done, but
it seems to be a very tedious process, to get such a large number of delicate specimens
carefully packed.
2
Letter not found.
3
Friedrich Eduard Koch had sold to the National Museum of Victoria his valuable collection
of Tertiary fossils, which included some from localities that are no longer accessible
and some type specimens; this is now part of the Invertebrate Palaeontology Collection,
Museums Victoria. See Geinitz (1894), p. VII.
Regardfully always your
Ferd von Mueller
I could not attend the Parliamentary dinner last evening
as I had by prior arrangement to deliver my annual adress before the litterary Association
of the W. Melb presbyterian Church
4
Both M and McCoy would have been invited, as heads of government departments, to the
annual Parliamentary dinner hosted by the President of the Legislative Council.