The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: 5/3/86. ¶ ¶ When writing to you hurriedly yesterday, ¶ dear Dr Ramsay, I forgot two things. ¶ 1, Will you kindly subscribe for me £1 to the bust of the hon. W. Macleay; I will include it in the mone...

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ML MSS.562, Letters to E. P. Ramsay 1862-91, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney. 86.03.05b

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Ferdinand von Mueller to Edward Ramsay, 1886-03-05 [86.03.05b]. 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/1880-9/1886/86-03-05b-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

5/3/86.

When writing to you hurriedly yesterday,

See M to E. Ramsay, 4 March 1886 (in this edition as 86-03-04a). The Linnean Society of NSW was collecting subscriptions to honour the services to science of Sir William Macleay by commissioning a bust for the Society’s library. The preparation of the bust, executed by the sculptor Achille Simonetti (1838-1900), was somewhat delayed but it was eventually unveiled on 22 June 1889; see Australian town and country journal, 29 June 1889, p. 44.

dear Dr Ramsay, I forgot two things.

1, Will you kindly subscribe for me £1 to the bust of the hon. W. Macleay; I will include it in the money-order for the parrots.

See M to E. Ramsay, 18 February 1886.

2, Can you kindly send me an extra-copy of that part of the L.S. proceedings of N.S.W., which contains the notes of Mikluho-Maclay on his utilitarian plants of New Guinea, lately published (a few months ago)

Miklouho-Maclay (1886), read 26 August 1885, issued 21 December 1885; B85.12.08 is included as an appendix to the paper.

Regardfully

your

Ferd. von Mueller