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Physical location:

MS 2755, f. 249 & 249a, Bibliothèque Centrale du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris. 94.08.30

Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to Alphonse Milne-Edwards, 1894-08-30. 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/1890-6/1894/94-08-30-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

30/8/94
It is very pleasing to me, dear Prof Milne-Edwards, that I am able to send you a box with nat. hist. specimens by this voyage of the Australien and the Ship takes the Box under the care of Dr Lamarq
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Lamarque? Surgeon on Australien .
and Mons Ailland free But as both remain in Marseille, I would advise you to communicate with them by letter, so soon as this letter arrives, as by that time the Australien will have reached France.
Dr Rougier, who so often with great kindness saw to the bringing of contributions for the Museum to you, is — as you will be aware — appointed to a position to the Pasteur Laboratory in Sydney,
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Louis Pasteur sent a mission to Sydney in 1890 in response to the announcement by the NSW Government of a prize for a successful method of controlling the burgeoning plague of rabbits in the colony. The project failed but the laboratory that was established later supplied an effective vaccine against anthrax, before being closed in 1898. Rougier was appointed director in 1894.
so that it now
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will be left out?
necessary to communicate from Paris to Marseille, whenever the “Australien” arrives, as I shall endeavour to send by that fine ship every voyage, therefore 3 times each year.
I had a most generous letter from Prof Maxime Cornu by last mail.
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Letter not found.
What a dreadful sadness the death of your late most honored President!
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The President of France, Sadi Carnot, was assassinated on 24 June 1894.
Regardfully your
Ferd von Mueller
It will probably be best that my sendings be only forwarded every 4 month under the personal surveillance of Capt Castellan
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The postscript is written on one of M's herbarium labels and has been numbered 249a at the Bibliothèque Centrale du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris. It is not clear that it belongs with this letter.