The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: 9/10/83 ¶ ¶ In your Linnean List, dear Mr Jackson, I find Mr Oshanesy ¶ noted as a South Australian. He always was, since his election, a settler & J.P. at the Comet-River Queensland. ¶ Regardfully ...

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Linnean Society, London, Miscellaneous loose letters, Fellows’ files, Mueller, F von, letter no 4. 83.10.09c

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Ferdinand von Mueller to B. Daydon Jackson, 1883-10-09 [83.10.09c]. 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/1880-9/1883/83-10-09c-final.odt>, accessed June 15, 2026

9/10/83

In your Linnean List, dear Mr Jackson, I find Mr Oshanesy

i.e. O'Shanesy.

noted as a South Australian. He always was, since his election, a settler & J.P. at the Comet-River Queensland.

Both the October 1882 and October 1883 printed lists of Fellows of the Linnean Society give the following information:

[Date of election] 1880, May.

O’Shanesy, Patrick Adam, Esq. Adelaide, S. Australia, care of Roberts and Co., East India Avenue, E.C.

The December 1884 list has his address as ‘Comet River, Queensland, Australia, Care of Roberts and Co., …’

Regardfully Your

Ferd. von Mueller.

The entire text is crossed through in blue pencil.