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ML MSS.562, Letters to E. P. Ramsay 1862-91, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney. 78.01.08Preferred Citation:
Ferdinand von Mueller to Edward Ramsay, 1878-01-08. 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/1870-9/1878/78-01-08-final.odt>, accessed June 9, 2026
8/1/78.
Last mail, dear Mr Ramsay, I have learnt from my friend Dr W. Sonder,
that there will be no difficulty to make you a corr. member of the Hamburgian Naturalists
Society,
if you present some specimens to their zoolog. collection. The sending you could
effect to Blackett & Co., Cox's Quay, Lower Thames Street, London,
but the consignment ought to arrive free in Hamburg. If you are once enrolled in
one of the continental societies, the membership of others will be more easily gained.
Is Mr Lawes in Sydney? Goldie sent nothing, absolutely nothing, altho' he drew on
me for £50. But let this be between us & Mr Lawes. He might have given me at least
some zoologic specimens.
1
Letter not found.
2
Natural History Society of Hamburg (Naturwissenschaftlicher Verein).
3
i.e. Blackith & Co.
I wished, I could get a passage in one of Capt Commodore Hoskins fregattes to N Guinea
myself. The Commodore wrote me a very friendly letter on the subject.
Is there no chance?
4
Letter not found.
Regardfully
Ferd. von Mueller.
Dr Moffitt,
whose acquaintance I had the great pleasure to make, also interests himself to get
me a chance to proceed to New Guinea
5
Moffitt was a passenger for Sydney from Southampton on Assam, which M joined at King George Sound, WA, to return to Melbourne (Argus, 5 January 1878, p. 6.