Ferdinand von Mueller

The Baron

Sir F. V. Mueller K.C.M.G.

F.R.S. &c&c&c

May 14th 1886

My dear Baron

Very many thanks for so kindly naming the

Calodendron

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See M to E. Ramsay, 11 May 1886. Calodendrum?

Calodendron

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not in IPNI, but M uses this spelling, for example in B85.12.03, p. 66.

& the valuable information contained in your letters. I hardly think it would be wise just at the present time to ask the Trustees of the Museums of Victoria or Queensland for a subscription to the funds of the Royal Geographical Soc. of Australasia — as all the specimens of zoology collected by the last venture under Capt. Everill

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New Guinea exploring expedition, 1885.

are here not yet having been divided , I have been entrusted with the working out of the whole, and with the assistance of several experts in connection with the Museum here & helped also by the Hon Wm Macleay, we hope to have the whole finished in a few weeks now after which they will be divided and sent on to the Museums of Victoria & Brisbane as previously agreed The collections are very meagre and do not throw much credit on the zoologist of the Expedition — Except in the case of Entomology where Mr Froggatt show[s] that he worked hard and made a very fair collection This Museum contributed irrespective of the £2000 voted by our Govnt nearly the whole of the scientific outfit at a cost of about £60 The value of the specimens which will come to our share will not exceed £20 — as in most cases I shall not retain any of the species and probably of the whole lot not more than ⅕th.

On the whole I think it would be unadvisable to ask the Museum to contribute until they have received their expecting shares.