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Ferdinand von Mueller to Prospero Ramel, 1860-08 [60.08.00f]. 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//letters/1860-9/1860/60-08-00f-final.odt>, accessed June 4, 2026

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Letter not found. The text given here is from Bulletin de la Société Impériale Zoologique d'Acclimatation , vol. 7 (1860), p. 566. The letter is dated to August as the latest likely date that it could have been sent for Ramel to be able to report it to the Society in a letter written in mid-October.
[M. P. Ramel, dans une lettre adressée à M. le Président, en date du 15 octobre, fait connaître l'intention que lui a exprimée M. le docteur Mueller, de Melbourne, d'envoyer à la Société un certain nombre d'animaux d'Australie, parmi lesquels M. Ramel lui a signalé l'Oiseau-lyre, les Bronze-wing Pigeons, les Wombats, etc., aussitôt que les chargements de laine s'expédieront directement pour France, c'est-à-dire au printemps prochain. Dès à présent, M. Mueller vient de nous adresser six collections de semences australiennes, au nombre desquelles se trouvent celles de l'
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,. … Des graines d'Eucalyptus accompagnent la lettre de M. Ramel, qui renferme aussi la liste des plantes et graines désirées par M. Mueller pour le Jardin botanique de Melbourne, et que la Société est priée de demander, en son nom, à M. Hardy, directeur de la Pépinière centrale d'Alger.]
[Mr P. Ramel, in a letter to the President dated 15 October, gives notice of the intention expressed by Dr. Mueller of Melbourne to send to the Society, as soon as shipments of wool are sent directly to France, that is to say next Spring, a number of Australian animals, among which Mr Ramel has indicated to him Lyre Birds, Bronze-wing Pigeons, Wombats, etc. Mr Mueller has now sent us six collections of Australian seeds,
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At the meeting of the Society on 2 November it was announced that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs reported that such a collection been sent from Melbourne to the Ministry's agent in Marseilles; the meeting also heard that the shipment, 'annoncé directement à la Société par M. le docteur Mueller' [announced directly to the Society by Dr. Mueller] had been held for some time in Alexandria (Bulletin de la Société Impériale Zoologique d'Acclimatation , vol. 7 (1860), p. 572. It was reported at the meeting of 23 November (p. 601) that the seeds had been sent by the Ministry to the Society.
including those of
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Some comments by Ramel on the utility and importance of
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have been omitted here.
Eucalyptus seeds accompany Mr Ramel's letter, which also encloses the list of plants and seeds desired by Mr Mueller for the Melbourne Botanic Garden, which the Society is begged to request in its name from Mr Hardy, Director of the Central Nursery of Algiers.
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M's list of desiderata not found.
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