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Ferdinand von Mueller

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  • Charles Stuart to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1851-11-10.
    Hobart Town Novr 10th 1851. ¶ My dear Sir ¶ ¶ I received your welcome letter of Aug 18th ¶ also the enclosure for which I return you my best thanks altho it was not less than I expected from your ki...
    • Ferdinand von Mueller to William Lonsdale, 1853-02-22.
      May day hills, ¶ 22. Febr. 1853. ¶ Sir, ¶ ¶ I have the honor to inform you for communication to his Excellency the Governor, that I arrived here with Mr Dallachi's party on the 20th inst., after a j...
      • Ferdinand von Mueller to William Lonsdale, 1853-03-09.
        Ovens-river, ¶ 9th March 1853 ¶ Sir ¶ ¶ I do myself the honor to inform you, for communication to his Excellency the Governor, that I reached Mount Aberdeen in the Buffalo ranges on the 25th of Febr...
        • Ferdinand von Mueller to William Lonsdale, 1853-05-10.
          Alberton, ¶ 10th May 1853. ¶ Sir, ¶ ¶ I do myself the honor to inform you for communication to his Excellency the Governor, that since my last report, dated Yerring 15th April, ¶ I proceeded to Gip...
          • Wilhelm Sonder to Friedrich Miquel, 1854-03-09.
            Hamburg 9 March 1854 ¶ Most highly esteemed Sir! ¶ ¶ […] ¶ ¶ You have perhaps seen from the last parts of ¶ Linnaea ¶ , that I have begun to work up the plants sent to me by my friend Dr Mueller fr...
            • Ferdinand von Mueller to John Foster, 1854-03-10.
              Avon, 10. March 1854. ¶ Sir ¶ ¶ I have the honor to inform you for communication to his Excellency the Governor, that I proceeded on my botanical expedition since my last report (dated Albury 15 Jan....
              • Ferdinand von Mueller to John Foster, 1854-04-18.
                Botanic Gardens, Melbourne, ¶ 18. April 1854. ¶ Sir ¶ ¶ I have the honor to inform you for communication to his Excellency the Governor, that I returned this day from my botanical expedition, in whic...
                • Wilhelm Sonder to Friedrich Miquel, 1854-06-07.
                  Hamburg 7 June 1854 ¶ Most esteemed Sir! ¶ ¶ After I was prevented for a long time through business from gathering together the Mueller plants, I have finally forwarded them with the steamship ¶ de ...
                  • Ferdinand von Mueller to William Hooker, 1854-07-14.
                    Botanical Gardens Melbourne, ¶ 14. July 1854. ¶ Sir William. ¶ ¶ Your kind communication, dated 9. Apr 1854, reached me yesterday, and it would be difficult to say, with how much pride and gratificat...
                    • Ferdinand von Mueller to William Hooker, 1855-09-03.
                      On board the "Monarch" 3 Sept. 1855 ¶ Sir William. ¶ ¶ In a very few days we expect to reach our destination at the Victoria River, and as our attention then will be fully required to disembark our h...
                      • Ferdinand von Mueller to William Hooker, 1857-05-20.
                        Sydney bot. Garden ¶ 20 May 1857 ¶ Sir William. ¶ ¶ Desirous of communicating to you regularly by the mail, I shall forward a few lines again, and apprize you of the close of my labours in Sydney. Th...
                        • Ferdinand von Mueller to David Moore, 1857-08-25.
                          REPORT ON THE BOTANIC GARDEN. ¶ Melbourne Botanic Garden, ¶ 25th August, 1857. ¶ Sir, ¶ ¶ In compliance with your request, I have the honor of transmitting a general report on the present state of th...
                          • Ferdinand von Mueller to Julian Tenison Woods, 1857-09-17.
                            Melbourne bot Gardens ¶ 17 Sept 1857 ¶ Reverend Sir ¶ ¶ My brother in law, Dr Edw. Wehl, informs me, that you were desirous of opening a botanical correspondence with me. In anticipation of this, I b...
                            • Ferdinand von Mueller to William Hooker, 1857-10-26.
                              Melbourne botanic Garden ¶ 26. Oct. 1857 ¶ Dear Sir William. ¶ ¶ Mr Wilson, the Geologist of the North Australian Expedition proceeding home by the [...] ¶ I avail myself of the opportunity of sendi...
                              • Ferdinand von Mueller to Alphonse de Candolle, 1858-01-09.
                                Bot. Garden, Melbourne ¶ 9. Jan. 1858. ¶ Prof. Alph. de Candolle ¶ Sir, ¶ ¶ Having received your friendly letter dated 16. Sept. 1857 ¶ this day, I hasten to assure you, that the manifestations of k...
                                • Ferdinand von Mueller to William Hooker, 1858-05-12.
                                  Melbourne bot. Garden, ¶ 12. May 1858. ¶ My dear Sir William. ¶ ¶ Again the time for sending our monthly letters is approaching and I will therefore devote an evening hour to you and Dr Hooker. — I h...
                                  • Ferdinand von Mueller to William Hooker, 1858-06-14.
                                    Melbourne, bot Garden 1858. ¶ June 14th ¶ My dear Sir William ¶ ¶ It was my intention to have written to you a very long letter in answer to your very friendly communication dated April 11th, ¶ but ...
                                    • Joseph Hooker to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1858-06-22.
                                      Kew June 22d/58 ¶ Dear Dr. Mueller ¶ ¶ I am very much obliged for your letters, ¶ & glad to hear of all your doings & that the gardens at Melbourne progress so well. I do not know whether my Father ...
                                      • Ferdinand von Mueller to William Hooker, 1858-07-15.
                                        Melbourne bot gardens ¶ 15 July 1858 ¶ My much beloved Sir William. ¶ ¶ The mail due on the 5. of this month did not yet arrive. I have therefore but few things to allude to by this days mail. I will...
                                        • Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1858-10-15.
                                          Melbourne bot. Garden ¶ 15 Oct. 58. ¶ My dear Dr Hooker. ¶ ¶ By the accident, which happened to the mail, your letter ¶ was delayed a month over the due time & I could therefore not respond to it ea...
                                          • Ferdinand von Mueller to William Hooker, 1859-05-16.
                                            Melbourne botanic ¶ & zoologic Garden, ¶ 16. May 1859 ¶ My dear Sir William ¶ ¶ Altho' the last mail did not bring me any lines from your hand, it conveyed still the marks of your kindness in the tra...
                                            • Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1859-10-15.
                                              Melbourne bot. & zoolog. Garden, ¶ 15. Oct. 1859. ¶ My dear Dr Hooker ¶ ¶ Only last night I received Mr Pamplins consignment of books pr "Exodus" containing also the fascicles of the Flora Tasmanica,...
                                              • Ferdinand von Mueller to Eugene Rimmel, 1859-12-01.
                                                Melbourne Botanical and Zoological Gardens, ¶ 1st Dec., 1859. ¶ Sir,- ¶ ¶ In reply to your request to be furnished with information on such plants peculiar to Australia as may be regarded as practica...
                                                • Ferdinand von Mueller to Richard Heales, 1861-02-28.
                                                  Melbourne botanic and zoolog. Garden, ¶ 28 February 1861. ¶ Sir ¶ ¶ I have the honor of submitting to you an outline of the labours and proceedings in this establishment during the past month. ¶ ¶ T...
                                                  • Ferdinand von Mueller to William Hooker, 1861-05-26.
                                                    Melbourne bot &zool Garden, ¶ 26. May 1861. ¶ Dear Sir William. ¶ ¶ By this months mail I am anxious to apprize you of the despatch of several sendings to Kew. None is important, yet the accumulate m...
                                                    • Ferdinand von Mueller to William Hooker, 1861-07-23.
                                                      Melbourne, botanic & zoologic Garden ¶ 23. July 1861 ¶ My very dear Sir William. ¶ ¶ I have your noble letters, dated 18 and 25 May before me, accompanied by communications from your son & Mr Bentham...
                                                      • William Woolls to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1861-08-03.
                                                        Parramatta ¶ August 3/ 61 ¶ My Dear Doctor ¶ ¶ I have just returned from Sydney after having spent a very pleasant day with Mr Macleay. ¶ He showed me Mr Bentham's letter to Sir William Hooker, ¶ a...
                                                        • August Petermann to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1861-09-12.
                                                          12 September 1861. ¶ Revered Sir, ¶ ¶ Your very esteemed letter of 25 June has given us all great and unexpected pleasure by the extraordinary interest and sympathy you have displayed for Heuglin's s...
                                                          • Ferdinand von Mueller to Prospero Ramel, 1861-10-??.
                                                            [Mr Ramel, in announcing that our two honorary members Messrs. Wilson and Mueller have just been appointed president and vice-president of the Acclimatisation Society of Melbourne, ¶ At a meeting on 7...
                                                            • Ferdinand von Mueller to Richard Heales, 1861-10-04.
                                                              Melbourne bot. & zool. Garden, ¶ 4. Oct. 1861 ¶ Sir ¶ ¶ In submitting a brief report on the work in this establishment during the past month I beg to observe, that now the new fencings of wrought iro...
                                                              • George Bentham to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1861-11-16.
                                                                Kew London W ¶ Nov 16/61 ¶ My dear Sir ¶ ¶ Since I last wrote to you I have been working up the Australian Hibbertieae which it was necessary to do in order to decide for our Genera on your proposed ...
                                                                • Ferdinand von Mueller to George Bentham, 1862-01-24.
                                                                  Melbourne bot & zool. Garden ¶ 24 Jan. 62. ¶ My dear Mr Bentham. ¶ ¶ I am highly gratified with your very kind communication received by last mail and the interesting remarks on Australian Botany, wh...
                                                                  • Ferdinand von Mueller to William Hooker, 1862-01-29.
                                                                    Melbourne bot. & zool. Garden ¶ 29. Jan. 62 ¶ Dear Sir William. ¶ ¶ I have much pleasure in enclosing a bill of loading of a case with 9 fascicles of Thalamiflorae sent for Mr Benthams perusal pr. Gr...
                                                                    • Ferdinand von Mueller to Edward Ramsay, 1862-04-15.
                                                                      15/4/62 ¶ Dear Sir. ¶ ¶ I have to crave your pardon for having not before this acknowledged your kind donation of dried plants, which were most welcome & have been inserted in the fascicles of our Mu...
                                                                      • Ferdinand von Mueller to William Hooker, 1862-07-24.
                                                                        Melbourne bot. Garden, ¶ 24. July 62 ¶ My dear Sir William. ¶ ¶ By the Roxburgh Castle I have forwarded the rest of my Thalamiflorae for Mr Bentham's perusal. From the bye-following memorandum you wi...
                                                                        • Ferdinand von Mueller to George Bentham, 1862-07-24.
                                                                          Melbourne bot.Garden, ¶ 24 July 1862 ¶ My very dear Sir. ¶ ¶ I am in possession of your very kind letters dated ¶ ¶ , ¶ and am glad to learn, that your & Dr Hookers important work on the genera pl...
                                                                          • Ferdinand von Mueller to Sosthènes d'Armand de Châteauvieux, 1863-??-??.
                                                                            [Mr Geoffroy then communicated to the Assembly several letters: ¶ … ¶ 3) From Mr de Chateauvieux, from Saint-Leu (Reunion Island), reporting on his experiments on the cultivation of ¶ Eucalyptus ¶ :...
                                                                            • Ferdinand von Mueller to George Bentham, 1863-05-13.
                                                                              Melbourne bot Garden ¶ 13/5/63. ¶ My dear Mr Bentham. ¶ ¶ It was with extreme pleasure that I perused the interesting sheets of print, ¶ commencing your great opus. Beyond the ample information, whi...
                                                                              • Ferdinand von Mueller to George Bentham, 1863-08-11.
                                                                                Melbourne botanic Garden ¶ 11/8/63. ¶ Dear Mr Bentham. ¶ ¶ I am much gratified to observe that you so largely reduce the genera of Leguminosae. ¶ Nothing has rendered our favorite science more diffi...
                                                                                • Ferdinand von Mueller to George Bentham, 1863-10-15.
                                                                                  15/10/63 ¶ My very dear Sir. ¶ ¶ I feel grateful for your kindness in sending the 3 copies of your work to my Copenhagen friends. ¶ I made some enquiry at Baillière Melbourne firm, ¶ but there are ...
                                                                                  • Ferdinand von Mueller to William Hooker, 1863-12-10.
                                                                                    Melbourne bot. ¶ Garden 10/12/63 ¶ Dear Sir William. ¶ ¶ By the Sussex I beg to send two boxes with ¶ Eucalypti ¶ for Mr Bentham's work. ¶ I have placed in these cases also some volumes of Harveys...
                                                                                    • Ferdinand von Mueller to Thomas Anderson, 1865-02-24.
                                                                                      24/2/65 ¶ Dear Dr Anderson. ¶ ¶ The enclosed letter explains itself. ¶ Can you kindly advise, whether we should apply to any one, known to you as reliable for effecting the purchases. If I was free ...
                                                                                      • Ferdinand von Mueller to George Bentham, 1865-04-21.
                                                                                        21/4/65. ¶ ¶ I presume, dear Mr Bentham, that one of my letters to you must have strayed; for I am under the impression, that I suggested Mr Will. Woolls's election into the Linnean Society. ¶ He is...
                                                                                        • Ferdinand von Mueller to Justus von Liebig, 1865-05-25.
                                                                                          Melbourne Botanic Garden ¶ 25 May 1865. ¶ Revered Baron, ¶ ¶ Your friend Madame Eliza King ¶ passed on to me recently your pleasing news about Dr Neumayer, and I was touched as pleasantly by the int...
                                                                                          • Clement Hodgkinson to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1865-05-30.
                                                                                            Office of Lands & Survey, ¶ Melbourne, 30th May 1865. ¶ Dear Sir, ¶ ¶ Referring to your note of the 10th instant, ¶ I beg to inform you that the Crown Lands Bailiff, Mr Bickford, has been instructed...
                                                                                            • 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 ...
                                                                                              • George Bentham to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1865-06-26.
                                                                                                25, WILTON PLACE, S.W. ¶ June 26 /65 ¶ My dear Sir ¶ ¶ I have just had forwarded from Kew to the Agent to ship for you two boxes containing all your Myrtaceae except Eucalyptus and one small parcel o...
                                                                                                • Ferdinand von Mueller to George Bentham, 1865-07-14.
                                                                                                  14/7/65 ¶ ¶ Your kind letter of 25/4 dear Mr Bentham, did not arrive in time to be answered by last months mail It is my intention to send you soon all the Compositae, a very extensive, beautiful & i...
                                                                                                  • George Bentham to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1865-07-23.
                                                                                                    25, WILTON PLACE, S.W. ¶ July 23/65 ¶ My dear Sir ¶ ¶ I write a few lines to say that being in town for a day or two (my vacation time has commenced) I find your letter of the 21st April and at the s...
                                                                                                    • Ferdinand von Mueller to George Bentham, 1865-09-22.
                                                                                                      Melbourne bot. Garden, ¶ 22/9/65. ¶ ¶ I have, dear Mr Bentham, your kind letter of 23 july ¶ before me and am much pleased with the information it contains. It is interesting to observe that we have...
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