Ferdinand von Mueller

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Letters not found. The text is from Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou, vol. 40 (1867), no. 1, séances p. 15, in a report of a meeting of the Society indicated as held on 16 March 1867 (although this appears to be a misprint for 16 February 1867). M's letter is dated to December 1867 since this is when he announced the discovery of the new species of cassowary; see M to the Editor of the Australasian, 15 December 1866 (B66.12.02).

[Mr. le Dr. Ferdinand Mueller de Melbourne communique une notice sur une nouvelle espèce de Casuar qu'on a découverte dans le Nord-Est de la nouveller Hollande et qu'il a nommé Casuaris Johnsonii dont il promet envoyer un échantillon pour les collections de la Société. — Mr. Müller a envoyé en même temps pour la collection ethnographique du Musée public de Moscou une suite de portraits photographiés de tous les individus restans de la race des Yarra, indigènes de l'Australie (au nombre de 103) de même que 5 vues de quelques localités remarquables de ce pays.]

[Dr. Ferdinand Mueller of Melbourne sends a notice about a new species of Cassowary that has been discovered in the north-east of New Holland and that he has named Casuaris Johnsonii, of which he promises to send a specimen for the Society's collections. Mr. Mueller has sent at the same time for the ethnographic collection of the public Museum of Moscow a suite of photographic portraits of all the remaining individuals of the Yarra race, indigenes of Australia (to the number of 103),

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A set of the photographic portraits taken by Charles Walter at Coranderrk, Vic, and exhibited by him at the Intercolonial Exhibition of Australia, 1866-7. See also M to the [Anthropological Society of London], 27 November 1866 (in this edition as 66-11-27b).

as well as 5 views of some remarkable localities of this country.]