Ferdinand von Mueller

21/3/96

Again, my dear Prof. Milne-Edwards, I shall send to you by the "Armand Behic" under the kind care of sub Capt. Castellan a consignment for the Musée, and this ought to arrive about one week after this letter. It consists of two cases , containing a considerable lot of minerals from Broken Hill in the most western part of New South Wales.

For your own special Department 2 cases of Australian Bird-Eggs , some of extraordinary rarity , reliably named; 2 cases with Austral Birds-Nests named, one box containing in Alcohol Limnanthemum and Sebaea for Prof Guignard .

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Léon Guignard, pharmacist and plant anatomist.

For you specially 2 Lizards in 2 small boxes from the vicinity of Port Phillip but rare. 1 Box with various articles from South-Africa, 1 Box of Conchilia, chiefly from New Zealand and among them some of rarity , one box of Algs from South-Australia, for Prof Van Tieghem, and among which Dr Bornet may find some species of particular interest, also some Algs (not of much value from the Abrolos West-Australia

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Abrolhos Islands, near Carnarvon, WA.

to fill up some fruits of Banksia ornata (a rare species) and for you specially a skeleton of Dendrolagos Lumholtzii (or of an allied species) from North East Queensland. Some of these things your grand Museum will possess already, but then they will serve interchanges.

Let me hope that Prof Van Tieghem has fully recovered from his illness.

Has the Institut or Academy such a library to which I should send some of my works?

Prof Lacroix has received various small […] fungs by post

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Prof Tieghem will probably have found the Nuytsia and Atkinsonia roots sufficient for his histology researches

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For previous work see Tieghem (1893), Tieghem (1895); Tieghem (1896) summarizes his work on the Loranthaceae.

Contents of box for France

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List written in another hand on a separate sheet.

1 Bottle containing (2) Young Dendrolagus & one small marsupial.

1 Bottle of Giant Earthworms from South Gippsland.

Banksia grandis cones from W. Australia;

(12) different Kinds of Minerals from Broken-Hill &c

1 Skeleton of Dendrolagus Bennettii.

20 species of Victorian Birds eggs.

2 Emu Eggs

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