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ML MSS.562, Letters to E. P. Ramsay 1862-91, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney. 81.10.31
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Preferred Citation:
Ferdinand von Mueller to Edward Ramsay, 1881-10-31. 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/1880-9/1881/81-10-31-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026
31/10/81
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3 over 2 (or possibly 2 over 3).
You were so good, dear Mr Ramsay, to send me some months ago a fucaceous plant, dredged
by you from a depth of 40-60 feet in Port Jackson.
As there were
no
fruits
on your specimens, I sent them to Dr Sonder, the great Algologist with whom I am
in correspondence on Algs for more than 30 years!
He
also can make nothing of it, but thinks with me, that it may be a
. Will you kindly show these fragments also to the excellent Mr Hasswell,
who — while dredging — does keep as a rule like you also any Algs for me. Could not
for a trifling payment, which I would refund, parties living on different parts of
the coast of N.SW. be induced to bring up fresh after a storm a
cart
-load full of various Algs (
all
sorts,
some
specimens of each), throw them on the floor of a barn or shed for drying, turn them
over once a day, put them when quite dry in a corn bag and forward them with account
of expenses. Such algae must
not
be washed in fresh water!
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Sydney.
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W. A. Haswell.
N.S.W. stands very poorly in the Census of Algs as yet.
Regardfully your
Ferd. von Mueller
Got the additional fruits of your palm.