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Ferdinand von Mueller to the Imperial Society of Naturalists of Moscow, 1867 [67.00.00f]. 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/1860-9/1867/67-00-00f-final.odt>, accessed June 4, 2026

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Letters not found. The text is from Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou, vol. 40 (1867), no. 2, séances p. 62, in a report of a meeting of the Society held on 21 September 1867.
[Mr. le Dr. Ferdinand Muller de Melbourne en Australie, dans 4 lettres consécutives, annonce ses envois d'objets ethnographiques destinées au Musée public de Moscou, consistant principalement en armes des habitans de la tribu Yarra ; ce sont les premières de cette espèce qui aient jamais été envoyées en Europe, ainsi que celles d'une autre contrée d'Arnhems Land rassemblées par les soins de Mr. Halls ; et une troisième collection d'armes des indigènes riverains du fleuve Murray rassemblées par Mr. Allan Hughan . — Ces objets sont déjà arrivés. — Mr. Ferdinand Muller annonce encore l'expédition d'une dernière caisse contenant également quelques objets ethnographiques provenant des indigènes sauvages de la Baye Rockingham de la côte Nord-Est de la Nouvelle Hollande. — Cette caisse doit renfermer en outre de la terre diatomique de Yarra, un certain nombre de plusieurs Hélices et Bulimes de la rivière de Richmond , un fruit du
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de King Georg Land et enfin 360 espèces de graines. — Mr. Muller se propose même de nous envoyer un exemplaire magnifique d'une fougère en arbre, le
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, de 10 pieds de haut.]
[Dr Ferdinand Muller of Melbourne in Australia in 4 consecutive letters announces his sendings of ethnographic objects destined for the public Museum in Moscow,
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M's sendings were most likely his response to an appeal that the Society of Lovers of Natural Knowledge of Moscow University, of which M had been elected a member in 1864, had circulated to its members around the world for materials for an exhibition of ethnographic materials that it was mounting at the Public Museum in Moscow.
Earlier in the same report of the meeting of the Imperial Society of Naturalists on 21 September 1867, on p. 55, it was reported that 'Mr. le Vice-Consul à Londres annonce que la caisse de Melbourne contenant des squelettes des indigènes de l'Australie a été expédiée par le vapeur anglais Banger, Capitaine Rendell à la maison de MM. Thielcke et Busk à St. Pétersbourg' [The Vice-Consul in London announces that the box from Melbourne containing skeletons of indigenous Australians has been sent by the English steamer Banger, Captain Rendell, to the house of Messrs Thielcke & Busk at St Petersburg]. M was also responsible for this sending; see M to the Imperial Society of Naturalists of Moscow, 1866 (in this edition as 66-00-00b), and M to the Imperial Society of Naturalists of Moscow, 1867 (in this edition as 67-00-00h).
consisting principally of weapons of the natives of the Yarra tribe; these are the first of that kind that have ever been sent to Europe, just like those from another region, Arnhem Land ,
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brought together through the good offices of Mr Halls
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; and a third collection, of weapons of the riparian natives of the Murray River,
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brought together by Mr Allan Hughan . These objects have already arrived. Mr Ferdinand Muller further announces the sending of a final box equally containing ethnographic pbjects, deriving from the wild natives of Rockingham Bay
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on the north-east coast of New Holland. This box will in addition enclose diatomic earth
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diatomaceous earth?
from Yarra, a number of several Helices and Bulimes
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Molluscs.
from the Richmond River,
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NSW.
a fruit of
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from King George Land
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King George Sound, WA?
and finally 360 kinds of seeds. Mr Muller even proposes to send us a magnificent specimen of a fern tree,
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, 10 feet high.]