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72.03.00c

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Ferdinand von Mueller to the Fremantle Herald, 1872-03 [72.03.00c]. 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/1870-9/1872/72-03-00c-final.odt>, accessed May 10, 2026

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Letter not found. The text given here is from the Herald (Fremantle), 30 March 1872, p. 3.
[The following interestes ting
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interesting?
p aper has been forwarded to us in the original German, by Baron Von M ü ller of Melbourne]
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The accompanying article is 'AN OPEN POLAR SEA IN THE NORTH OF SIBERIA. Contributed by Baron von Mueller. Translated from the Australische Deutsche Zeit.' The original German-language article appeared in the Melbourne edition of the Australische Zeitung, 29 February 1872; M enclosed a clipping of it in M to A. Petermann, 28 February 1872 (in this edition as 72-02-28a). (M presumably waited until he obtained the clipping before sealing the envelope containing his letter.) The article gives an account of the results of an expedition by 'Lieutenants Meyprecht [printer's error for Weyprecht?] and Payer of the K. K. [i.e. Austrian] Navy' with a crew of Norwegians, and their discovery of a 'whaling ground, that of the sea north of Nova Zembla [i.e. Novaya Zemlya]'.