The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: 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, ¶ Meldahl wa...

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Physical location:

Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum/Chicago Academy of Sciences, Chicago, Illinois. 95.06.07b

Plant names

Banksia coccinea
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Banksia grandis
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Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to the Secretary, Chicago Academy of Sciences, 1895-06-07 [95.06.07b]. 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/95-06-07b>, accessed April 20, 2025

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,

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.

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 parcel

List of contents is in a different hand; M has added his note underneath the list. Annotated: 'Rcvd from Baron von Mueller'.

42 species of plants.

Annotated: 'Acc # 580'.

25 species of Victorian Birdseggs comprising about 40 eggs

Annotated: 'Acc # 579 — EGGS'.

& B. coccinea cones from W. Australia

Collection of Australian seeds.

Parcel of publications including Census of Austral Plants 2nd edition,

B89.12.03.

Select Plants 8th edition,

B91.09.01.

Wattle Bark Report,

B92.14.02.

Linnean Index

B80.04.04.

& Melbourne Liedertafel programmes.