The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: 15/10/86. ¶ ¶ By last post, dear Sir Richard, I sent to you registered a new-born specimen of Ornithorrhynchus, obtained by the Rev. Pastor Hagenauer, a letter of whom accompanies this of mine. ¶ Th...

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Natural History Museum, London, Owen correspondence, vol. XIX, f. 396. 86.10.15

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Ferdinand von Mueller to Richard Owen, 1886-10-15. 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/1880-9/1886/86-10-15-final.odt>, accessed June 15, 2026

15/10/86.

By last post, dear Sir Richard, I sent to you registered a new-born specimen of Ornithorrhynchus, obtained by the Rev. Pastor Hagenauer, a letter of whom accompanies this of mine.

See M to R. Owen, 5 October 1886 (in this edition as 86-10-15a) and F. Hagenauer to M, 4 October 1886.

The mother-animal is here, and I will hand it over to Prof MCoy, to deliver it to you, if his mode of travelling makes it convenient for him to carry it.

Frederick McCoy was proceeding to England on sabbatical leave from the University of Melbourne.

Other wise you will receive it through my London-Agents, Mess Watson & Scull Thames-Street. The nestlike bed got damaged by rain on its way from Gippsland

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here; so a Lady has undertaken to sketch it, and you can thus be supplied.

Sketch not found.

At page 72 of the publication of the Field Naturalists Club,

'Australian Paradoxes', Victorian naturalist, vol. 3, October 1886, p. 72, quoting from Field (1825), p. 461.

of which I have the honor to be the Patron, You will find an extract from "Field's New South Wales," which work was published 1825, at which time already it was known that the (Water-)Mole lays eggs. 3 short prints on the Monotremes

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will be posted to you by this mail.

Regardfully your

Ferd.von Mueller