The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: [Since the receipt of this dispatch, ¶ i.e. the communication from Black. ¶ Mr P. Ramel has sent us a letter in which Dr Mueller informs him that he added, in his own name, to the animals designated...

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63.08.00c

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Ferdinand von Mueller to Prospero Ramel, 1863-08 [63.08.00c]. 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/1860-9/1863/63-08-00c-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

Letter not found. The text given here is from Bulletin de la Société impériale zoologique d'acclimatation, vol. 10 (1863), p. 637. The report of M's letter to Ramel immediately follows the full text of a letter from Thomas Black, dated 25 August 1863, in which he announced that, through M's contact in London (the secretary of the Zoological Society of London, P. L. Sclater), the Acclimatisation Society of Victoria had sent a lizard, six passerine birds and a pair of crested pigeons for the French society. M's letter is dated to August 1863 based on the date of Black's letter and is the latest likely date for it to have been written to be reported at the meeting of the Society held on 2 October 1863.

[Depuis la réception de cette dépêche, M. P. Ramel nous a comminiqué une lettre par laquelle M. le docteur Mueller lui annonce qu'il a ajouté, en son propre nom, aux animaux désignés par M Black, deux Colluricincla harmonica, également destinés à notre Société.]

[Since the receipt of this dispatch,

i.e. the communication from Black.

Mr P. Ramel has sent us a letter in which Dr Mueller informs him that he added, in his own name, to the animals designated by Mr Black, two Colluricincla harmonica ,

Grey shrikethrush.

also intended for our Society.]