The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: 13/11/79. ¶ ¶ Allow me, dear Mr Ramsay, to ask, whether in the systematic dredging in Port Jackson ¶ your operators came across any Algae? In 1854 the late lamented Prof. Harvey by the aid of Mr Moo...

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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. 79.11.13

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Claude Bennettiana
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Ferdinand von Mueller to Edward Ramsay, 1879-11-13. 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/1870-9/1879/79-11-13-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

13/11/79.

Allow me, dear Mr Ramsay, to ask, whether in the systematic dredging in Port Jackson

NSW.

your operators came across any Algae? In 1854 the late lamented Prof. Harvey by the aid of Mr Moore obtained several rare seaweeds in your Bay by dredging, including the .

Claudea bennettiana? See W. Harvey (1858-63), Plate LXI.

Should any Algae turn up in your own marine searches, I should be greatly beholden to you, if you would allow their systematic elucidation to be effected through or by myself.

We are also as yet badly acquainted with the marine Monocotyledones (so called Sea grasses) of your Bay.

Regardfully your

Ferd. von Mueller.