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Ferdinand von Mueller to William Hooker, 1863-12-21.
Melbourne bot. Garden ¶ [2]1/12/63. ¶ Dear Sir William. ¶ ¶ By the "Essex" I forwarded Box No. 22 with plants for Mr Bentham's use, according to byefollowing list. This consignment contains almost th...
Ferdinand von Mueller to William Hooker, 1864-01-27.
Melbourne 27/1/64. ¶ Dear Sir William ¶ ¶ Pr. "Great Britain" ¶ I have forwarded to you for Mr Bentham Case No. 23, containing ¶ ¶ Also a small parcel for Prof Dr Petermann of Gotha, which Messrs T...
Ferdinand von Mueller to William Hooker, 1864-02-24.
Melbourne bot. Garden, ¶ 24/2/64. ¶ My dear Sir William. ¶ ¶ You extended your friendly interest again towards me by honoring me with two letters by last mail. ¶ Your communications cause me always ...
Ferdinand von Mueller to William Hooker, 1864-03-21.
21/3/64 ¶ My dear Sir William ¶ ¶ I have to thank you for your renewed token of generosity, manifested in the transmission of an other highly welcome fascicle of your great fern-work; that the finish...
Ferdinand von Mueller to William Hooker, 1864-05-07.
Melbourne bot Garden ¶ 7/5/64. ¶ Dear Sir William. ¶ ¶ It is with much pleasure that I renew my attempt of introducing a few prominently interesting plants into your noble establishment and therewith...
Ferdinand von Mueller to William Hooker, 1864-05-24.
Melbourne bot Garden ¶ 24/5/64. ¶ My dear Sir William ¶ ¶ I have to thank you for an other kind letter you honored me with by last mail. I am glad that I am still occasionally able to add to your col...
Ferdinand von Mueller to William Hooker, 1864-07-27.
27/7/64 ¶ My dear Sir William ¶ ¶ The last mail brought the concluding part of your noble work on the ferns of the world & hence it was only then that I could take cognizance of the very kind passage...
Ferdinand von Mueller to William Hooker, 1864-08-25.
25/8/64. ¶ My very dear & venerable Sir William. ¶ ¶ The roughly dried specimen of Lomaria discolor with ¶ doubly ¶ pinnatifid fronds herewith sent may interest you, though it is but a play-form. I...
Ferdinand von Mueller to William Hooker, 1864-10-25.
Melb. bot Garden ¶ 25/10/64. ¶ Dear Sir William. ¶ ¶ At the eve of the departure of the English mail I received a fair collection of plants from N. E. Australia, including several ferns new to Austra...
Ferdinand von Mueller to William Hooker, 1864-11-24.
Melbourne bot Garden ¶ 24/11/64 ¶ My dear Sir William ¶ ¶ The arrival of your kind letters gives me always great pleasure and so did yours of the 10 Sept, ¶ reaching me within the last days. I feel ...
George Thwaites to William Hooker, 1864-12-08.
Peradenia, Ceylon ¶ 8th Decr 1864 ¶ My very dear friend, ¶ [Discussion of botanical matters] ¶ …...
William Hooker to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1865-??-??.
¶ I say it with great regret & with shame: — but I feel utterly incompetent to name these Alsophilae. ¶ My own are very unsatisfactory: & either we have too many or two ¶ few species. I believe the...
Henry Barkly to William Hooker, 1865-01-05.
Mauritius ¶ 5th Jany 1865 ¶ My Dear Sir William ¶ ¶ [Discusses issues to do with the botany of Mauritius and the management of the Gardens] ¶ …...
Ferdinand von Mueller to William Hooker, 1865-01-25.
25/1/65 ¶ My dear Sir William. ¶ ¶ I have taken the liberty of adressing to you a parcel with Mosses from Paramatta, ¶ being anxious that they should be named by Mr Mitten; or in the event of that G...
Ferdinand von Mueller to William Hooker, 1865-02-24.
24/2/65 ¶ ¶ It affords me, dear Sir William, great pleasure to offer you a few interesting contributions to your fern memoranda. Cyathea medullaris has been found in Australia! It is a most reliable ...
Ferdinand von Mueller to William Hooker, 1865-02-25.
2[5]/2/65 ¶ ¶ In a collection, dear Sir William, recently arrived from Rockingham Bay, ¶ Qld. ¶ ¶ I have some noble Proteaceous trees, Grevillea Cardwellii, Grevillea Vaillantii & Helicia Darlingii,...
Ferdinand von Mueller to William Hooker, 1865-03-25.
25/3/65 ¶ The last mail, venerable and dear Sir William, brought me your letter of 26 jan., ¶ kind like all others which in a long and carefully kept array I have received from you and simultaneously...
Ferdinand von Mueller to William Hooker, 1865-04-18.
18/4/65 ¶ Venerable and dear Sir William. ¶ I have enclosed in my communication to you some fragments of interesting plants from Rockingham-Bay, ¶ Qld. ¶ some of which will probably be in time for Mr...
Ferdinand von Mueller to William Hooker, 1865-05-25.
25/5/65 ¶ Dear Sir William. ¶ ¶ The large quantity of seeds of hardy shrubs & trees, which you have been so kind to forward from Kew, together with the case of bulbs & cacti, have arrived. ¶ The con...
Ferdinand von Mueller to William Hooker, 1865-06-09.
9/6/65 ¶ Dear Sir William. ¶ ¶ I have sent a box with supplemental Myrtaceae, Araliaceae, Loranthaceae, Onagreae, ¶ Rubiaceae Cucurbitaceae & a few other calyciflorous orders this day pr Sussex to y...
Ferdinand von Mueller to William Hooker, 1865-06-24.
24/6/65 ¶ Dear & venerable Sir William. ¶ Through the disaster, which befel the steamer Bombay possibly one set of my letters to you has been lost & certainly I shall be prevented (as the substituted ...
Ferdinand von Mueller to William Hooker, 1865-07-13.
Melbourne bot. Garden, ¶ 13./7./65. ¶ Dear Sir William. ¶ ¶ The mailsteamer for Europe was out of our Bay before the incoming mail reached us; hence I could not answer to your friendly lines of 25 Ap...
Ferdinand von Mueller to William Hooker, 1865-07-21.
21/7/65. ¶ Dear Sir William. ¶ ¶ I was delighted to hear from your worthy son, that you are restored to health ¶ May it please providence to grant it to you long yet and unimpaired. What is to all o...
Ferdinand von Mueller to William Hooker, 1865-08-20.
20/8/65 ¶ ¶ Again I have to thank you, ever dear Sir William, for your goodness of thinking of me and of writing to me at such length. Your kind letter of the 2. june ¶ brought me the grateful intel...
Ferdinand von Mueller to William Hooker, 1865-08-25.
25/8/65 ¶ Dear Sir William ¶ ¶ Since writing to you I learn, that the library of poor Lindley cannot be secured in the manner, I hoped. ¶ This is very sad. Possibly by your applying to Sir Charl. Da...
Ferdinand von Mueller to William Hooker, 1865-09-26.
26/9/65 ¶ ¶ I intended, dear Sir William, to have sent you my departmental Report by this mail & the 34 No of the Fragmenta. ¶ Of both I have proof but they are not ready for this mail. By next mail...
Ferdinand von Mueller to William Hooker, 1865-09-29.
29/9/65 ¶ Venerable and dearest friend. ¶ ¶ I despatch to day the 27th box of dry plants to Kew. It contains rather more than ⅓ ¶ ¶ of the Compositae, which Mr Bentham desires according to his last...