Document information

Physical location:

ML MSS.562, Letters to E. P. Ramsay 1862-91, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney. 76.01.28

Plant names

Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to Edward Ramsay, 1876-01-28. 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/1870-9/1876/76-01-28-final.odt>, accessed June 9, 2026

28/1/76
I thank you for your friendly intention, dear Mr Ramsay, to send me the
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and other plants: Mr Fitzalan, though generally accurate, may have matched the fruit & leaves wrongly. I like you to share also in discoveries of these kinds, especially as you were yourself in the north. Mr Fitzalan's last collections disappointed me; he lost his time about terrestrial & other common ferns, and missed meanwhile the trees which likely would have contained a fair percentage of novelty. We know now however through him two more
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s sufficiently accurately for naming.
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M. described M. hillii (B75.11.02, p. 188) and M. fitzallanii (B75.12.01, p. 188), both from specimens collected by Fitzalan from the the Daintree River.
The scitaminous plants from the Duke of York's Island are not likely
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s, but will be interesting anyhow.
Can Mr Künstler
2
Not positively identified.
not join the Missionaries at Cape York, to be with them & d'Albertis
3
Luigi Maria d'Albertis.
in their journeys to New Guinea?
Regardfully yr
Ferd von Mueller.
I wonder what has become of the Doctor Mr Knight & Mrs
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Not positively identified.