Document information

Physical location:

ML MSS.562, letters to E. P. Ramsay 1862-91, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney. 85.03.26

Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to Edward Ramsay, 1885-03-26. 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/1880-9/1885/85-03-26-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

26/3/85
A friend of mine in Germany,
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Not identified.
dear Mr Ramsay, is eager to complete his collection of stuffed Parrots from Australian species. What he not has from this part of the globe, is noted on the byefollowing paper.
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Enclosure not found.
Can any of these be purchased at a reasonable price in Sydney? If I not tax your kindness too much, would you make enquiry. The Gentleman, desiring these species, is not in a position to make readily interchanges; so it would be a matter of purchase. Probably some are easily got in Sydney, but hardly any of them in Victoria.
Regardfully your
Ferd. von Mueller