The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: 14/[4]/78. ¶ Paper damaged. Letter dated from its evident connection with M to E. Ramsay, 4 April1878,andM to E. Ramsay,21 April 1878. ¶ ¶ I shall now be able, dear Mr Ramsay, to send the new Zealand...

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Physical location:

ML MSS.562, Letters to E. P. Ramsay 1862-91, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney. 78.04.14c

Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to Edward Ramsay, 1878-04-14 [78.04.14c]. 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/1870-9/1878/78-04-14c-final.odt>, accessed June 16, 2026

14/[4]/78.

Paper damaged. Letter dated from its evident connection with M to E. Ramsay, 4 April 1878, and M to E. Ramsay, 21 April 1878.

I shall now be able, dear Mr Ramsay, to send the new Zealand plants.

Pray watch my interest with Goldie, so far as you can. Mess. Mason brothers ought to interest themselves also on my behalf.

Thanks for all your other interest in the furtherance of my labours. Glad for your intended appeal to Commodore Hoskins.

Always your

Ferd. von Mueller

Plants from Port Darwin would be certainly of interest, as the Adelaide Director

Richard Schomburgk; M is referring to the third consignment of plants that Frederick Schultze sent from Darwin to Adelaide, 28 September 1869 (Wallis 2020), p. 44).

was mean enough to prevent me to get the third set of Schultz's plants.

See A. Paterson to M, 9 May 1876 (in this edition as 76-05-09a).

Can anyone there procure the Bamboo in flower?

cf. M to E. Ramsay, 4 April 1878.