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Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde, Stuttgart. 80.02.04

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Edward Ramsay to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1880-02-04. 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/1880-9/1880/80-02-04-final.odt>, accessed June 16, 2026

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This letter is clearly an answer to M to E. Ramsay, 30 January 1880. This sheet will have been included in a letter from M to Ferdinand von Krauss in response to his question about the identity of the 'gavial'; see n. 4 to F. von Krauss to M, 13 December 1879. Although enclosures were not mentioned, it was probably included with M to F. von Krauss, 16 February 1880.
Aust. Mus. Syd
Feb. 4th 1880
Baron Ferd. von Mueller C.M.G. &c &c &c
My dear Baron
The only Crocodiles that I have seen from Australia are Crocodilus biporcatus (Gray) and Philas (Tomistoma?) Johnstonei (Kr[)]
I have heard that the species from the Norman River
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Qld.
is distinct from that of Cardwell
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Qld.
and Eastern Queensland but although I have examined young specimen from Norman River, Port Darwin,
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NT.
Pt Essington,
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NT.
Cooktown,
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Qld.
and Cardwell & the South East Coast of New Guinea — I have failed to find any difference between them & believe them all to be of the same species, which is [I]
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Word omitted by Ramsay?
believe Crocodilus biporcatus
I am afraid the 1st vol of the Lin. Soc. is out of print. If we have a copy left I will ask the Council to send it to you. If you can tell me the No or the Paper you wish for I may be able to get an odd […]
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