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the Sociedad Mexicana de Historia Natural to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1873-11-20.
Mexican Society ¶ of Natural History ¶ ¶ This Society, taking into account the merit, learning and further qualities that come together in Baron Ferdinand Von Mueller have decided to nominate him as ...
William Odgers to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1874-02-20.
Chief Secretary's Office ¶ Melbourne 20th February 1874 ¶ Sir, ¶ ¶ In reply to your letter of the 12th instant ¶ I am directed to inform you that there is no provision for such an Expenditure as you...
Ferdinand von Mueller to John Balfour, 1874-02-22.
Private ¶ Melbourne ¶ 22/2/74 ¶ ¶ I look forward with very much delight and interest to the arrival of the "Challenger", dear Prof Balfour, and still more so now, since I know that ¶ you ¶ have a y...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Thomas Ware, 1874-04-03.
Melbourne ¶ 3/4/74. ¶ Sir ¶ ¶ In compliance with the request of the honorable the Chief Secretary, as conveyed in your letter of the ¶ ¶ March, ¶ I have the honor of transmitting herewith a copy o...
Ferdinand von Mueller to August Petermann, 1874-06-??.
¶ I must once again express my gratitude to you for the parts of your famous journal, ¶ which arrived with this month's mail, and my sentiments of gratitude are no less deep, even if I do not acknow...
Ferdinand von Mueller to George Story, 1874-07-02.
Morton's Hotel, ¶ Milswyn Str. ¶ S Yarra ¶ 2/7 ¶ /74 ¶ ¶ I am just working on the Xyrideae & allied plants, dear Dr Story, for the 7th vol. of the flora of Australia. ¶ Would you with your usual goo...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Edward Ramsay, 1874-07-05.
Gov. Botanists Office, Mortons Hotel, ¶ Milswyn Str. S. Yarra ¶ near Melbourne ¶ 5/7/74 ¶ ¶ Yesterday, dear Mr Ramsay, I got your letter of the 26 June; and as the Sydney mail leaves again tomorrow m...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Otto Lindberg, 1874-07-14.
Melbourne, ¶ 14 /7/74. ¶ ¶ It had been my intention for a long time, esteemed friend, to write to you; but as the disruptions continue in my administration, ¶ I was not only overburdened with additi...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Robert Brough Smyth, 1874-07-29.
Melbourne, 29th July 1874. ¶ Sir ¶ , ¶ ¶ I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your communication of yesterday, accompanied by fossil fruits obtained at Orange, in New South Wales, and so th...
Henry Hance to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1874-08-09.
Whampoa, ¶ China. ¶ ¶ 9. August, ¶ ¶ 1874 ¶ My dear Baron, ¶ ¶ Since I last wrote to you by mail of 20. June, ¶ Letter not found. ¶ ¶ I have received your letter of 18. May, ¶ Letter not found. ¶ ...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Henry Rawlinson, 1874-08-10.
Melbourne ¶ 10/8/74 ¶ Lieut. General Sir Henry Rawlinson, K.C.B., D.C.L., F.R.S., President of the Royal Geographic Society, &c &c ¶ The MS has been marked up for publication; annotations made by the ...
Ferdinand von Mueller to George Bowen, 1874-09-05.
Melbourne ¶ 5/9/74 ¶ Date crossed through andSeptr. 5. 1874inserted in another hand. ¶ To his Excellency Sir G. ¶ F.inserted in another hand. ¶ ¶ Bowen, G.C.M.G., Governor of Victoria &c &c ¶ Sir ¶ ...
George Brown to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1874-11-02.
Melbourne ¶ November 2 1874 ¶ Baron Ferd von Mueller ¶ Dear Sir ¶ ¶ In acceding to your request for a detailed description of the Islands of Samoa and of other places where I resided or visited durin...
Redmond Barry to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1874-12-10.
Copy ¶ My Dear Baron, ¶ ¶ In reply to your letter of the 9th ¶ I beg leave to say that some time since the Council of the University were informed that it was proposed to pull down the Botanical Mus...
Ferdinand von Mueller to George Bentham, 1874-12-25.
Melbourne ¶ Christmas, 1874. ¶ ¶ Since last I wrote, dear Mr Bentham, I have finished in sparehours an other portion of the Cyperaceae; so that now about 150 species got ready, and not more than abou...
Ferdinand von Mueller to William Henry Archer, 1875-02-12.
Mortons Hotel, ¶ S. Yarra ¶ 12/2/75 ¶ ¶ I got your note, dear Chev. ¶ Archer, a few days ago with the extract of the passage from the Work of the Marquis de Beauvois, ¶ also your letter of yesterda...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Robert Ramsay, 1875-03-01.
¶ [A/c for cab hire & expenses in collecting plants] ¶ This accountwas approved and returned to M on4 March 1875....
Wilhelm Sonder to Ferdinand von Krauss, 1875-03-08.
Hamburg 8 March [18]75 ¶ Dear Friend! ¶ ¶ I still owe you an answer to your letter of 15 January. I have endeavored in vain to ascertain who sent the trunk to you from here. I know nothing of it! As ...
Ernest Giles to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1875-04-17.
Strangways Springs, ¶ on the Trans-continental Telegraph Line, ¶ April 17th 1875. ¶ Giles reached the telegraph line atThomas Elder'spastoral property at Finniss Springs on 14 April where his party re...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Robert Ramsay, 1875-06-28.
Botanic Museum ¶ Melbourne, ¶ 28/6/75 ¶ Sir ¶ ¶ In response to a question of the Honorable H. J. Wrixon in the Legislative Assembly on the 24th inst., concerning the "best means of arresting by plant...
Ferdinand von Mueller to [Thomas Elder], 1875-08-??.
¶ [A long line of imperfectly known country has been mapped, and numerous specimens illustrative of the geology and natural history of the district have been collected. The botanical specimens have a...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Asa Gray, 1875-08-07.
Melbourne 7/8/75. ¶ Private ¶ ¶ I have to acknowledge, dear Dr Gray, your kindness of sending me the new volume of the hist. of plants of Wilkes's Expedition, ¶ as well as several of your valuable p...
Joseph Augustine to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1875-09-23.
Stanley ¶ 23rd Sept 1875, ¶ Baron Von Mueller Gov Botanist ¶ Sir ¶ ¶ I have the honour to acknowledge receipt of your kind reply to my previous note respecting the seed of the Tramoso. ¶ ¶ The seed...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Eduard Regel, 1875-10-??.
… ¶ ¶ the extraordinarily characteristic vegetation of south-west Australia, where the ¶ Regalia ¶ is one of the most widespread and characteristic forms to this district, does not extend in the d...
Ferdinand von Mueller to John MacPherson, 1875-12-01.
¶ [Forwards a/c for cab hire] ¶ This accountwas approved and returned to M on7 December 1875....
Alfred Giles to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1876-??-??.
¶ [O ¶ n my next trip a year or so later ¶ The letter is dated to 1876 on the basis of'a year or so later'.Alfred Giles's dated specimens at MEL are between 1886 and 1895, which would not fit with th...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Robert Brough Smyth, 1876-??-??.
[In summer the Aborigines of the Mallee country eat ¶ Lárap ¶ , ¶ Lárp ¶ , or ¶ Lerp ¶ — a kind of manna…] ¶ This saccharine substance, ¶ The passage 'says Baron von Mueller, C.M.G., in a letter t...
Ferdinand von Mueller to William Odgers, 1876-02-23.
¶ The Euc. ficifolia was named and described by me in 1860 (in my fragm. II, 85 ¶ ) and it is as yet only known from Brooke's Inlet, about 70 miles from King George's Sound ¶ in a wild impervious un...
[J. Lynch] to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1876-04-??.
[Our Guildford ¶ Vic. ¶ correspondent writes that at a depth of two hundred feet, in the claim of the Golden Lead, on Mr Mein's property, Guildford, fossil fruit, branches and leaves, have been found...
Alexander Paterson to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1876-04-24.
Botanic Road Adelaide ¶ April 24th 1876 ¶ My dear Baron ¶ ¶ Ingleby ¶ and I tried to determine this plant yesterday by the account of the Compositae in the Flora Australiensis, ¶ without success. I...
Ferdinand von Mueller to John Shillinglaw, 1876-06-04.
Sunday ¶ ¶ ¶ I have found the larger portrait, dear Mr Shillinglaw, & send it you on loan, so that you can have your choice between that and the woodcut of R ¶ Brown ¶ . Anticipating that you will...
Ferdinand von Mueller to John MacPherson, 1876-06-19.
¶ [A/c for cab fare &c £1.15.0] ¶ This account was returned to M on 21 June initialled ‘CS’ [i.e. Chief Secretary]....
Ferdinand von Mueller to John MacPherson, 1876-07-??.
¶ [Government Botanist Part 3 of the Educational collection of plants]...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Magnus Massmann, 1876-07-03.
Melbourne ¶ 3/7/76 ¶ ¶ It was very kind of you, noble Sir, to have complied with the wishes of the kind Mayor Passow, and cared for the upkeep of the grave of my venerated father in such a satisfacto...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Malcolm Fraser, 1876-08-07.
Melbourne 7/8/76. ¶ The honorable Malcolm Fraser, M.P., ¶ Surveyor General of West-Australia. ¶ Sir ¶ ¶ I have the honor to enquire, whether the Government of West Australia would be favorably inclin...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1876-08-20.
20/8/76 ¶ ¶ It may interest you, dear Dr Hooker, that a second species of your genus Adenochilus has been discovered by Mr J Norton, on a cataract in the Blue Mountains of N.S. Wales, very near to A....
Ferdinand von Mueller to August Petermann, 1877-01-18.
18/1/77 ¶ ¶ With this month's post, noble Friend, I am sending you the new volume of the ¶ ¶ “Industrial plants”, ¶ B76.13.03. ¶ ¶ which may have particular interest on account of ¶ ¶ the ¶ ¶ geo...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1877-02-20.
20/2/77. ¶ ¶ I am eager to ask you, dear Dr Hooker, whether you (as I hope) preserved the few proofsheets of the School-Flora, which I sent you successively several months ago. ¶ The work has been ...
William Odgers to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1877-04-12.
Chief Secretary's Office. ¶ Melbourne 12 April 1877 ¶ Sir ¶ ¶ I have the honor to request that you will be so good as to furnish at your early convenience a statement shewing the sums not likely to b...
William Odgers to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1877-04-13.
Chief Secretary's Office. ¶ Melbourne 13 April 1877 ¶ Sir ¶ ¶ I have the honor to request that you will be so good as to forward at your earliest convenience an Estimate of the provision required to ...
Charles Fooks to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1877-05-11.
Normanton ¶ Qld. ¶ May 11, 1877 ¶ Baron von Mueller ¶ C.M.G. F.R.S ¶ Dear Sir...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1877-07-07.
7/7/77. ¶ A few days ago, dear Dr Hooker, the attached print appeared in the Argus. I feel sure, that by some oversight or inadvertence this communication did not go to me as Gov. Botanist, because I ...
Ferdinand von Mueller to George Grey, 1877-07-12.
12/7/77 ¶ I was pleasingly surprised, dear Sir George, to receive so kind and encouraging a letter from you, ¶ with such glorious words on my poor ¶ “ ¶ select plants”. ¶ To see so much praise best...
Robert Fitzgerald to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1877-07-17.
Surveyor Generals ¶ Office Sydney, ¶ 17 July 77 ¶ Dear Baron, ¶ ¶ I enclose the seed of the Pittosporum of Howes Island ¶ and young plant in seed leaf. The germination appears to me to be unusual, a...
Ferdinand von Mueller to William Odgers, 1877-08-16.
16/8/77. ¶ ¶ Will you be so kind, dear Mr Odgers, to see, whether the account for the seeds of Euc. ¶ ficifolia forwarded to your Office on the 27 June ¶ for the French Government, is passed. It se...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Sven Berggren, 1877-08-18.
18/8/77 ¶ ¶ I thank you very much, worthy Dr Berggren, for the sending of both your important papers on Arctic mosses. ¶ ¶ I eagerly await the publication of your results from New Zealand. ¶ ¶ Can ...
John Fairfax & Sons to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1877-08-21.
"The Sydney Morning Herald" ¶ "THE SYDNEY MAIL". ¶ 21st August ¶ 18 ¶ 77. ¶ Baron Ferd. Von Mueller C.M.G. M.D PHD. F.R.S. ¶ Melbourne....
William Odgers to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1877-08-22.
Chief Secretary's Office ¶ Melbourne 22nd August 1877 ¶ Sir, ¶ ¶ I have the honor to inform you that an account as per margin ¶ for the cost of the Eucalyptus ficifolia seeds for Algeria has been pa...
Ferdinand von Mueller to William Thiselton-Dyer, 1877-12-24.
Emerald Isle Hotel ¶ King George's Sound ¶ Christmas Eve 1877. ¶ ¶ You asked me, dear Mr Dyer, some time ago, to procure once more seeds of Neptunia gracilis, which is now accomplished through the ki...
Ferdinand von Krauss to the Royal Administration, Württemberg, 1877-12-30.
Royal Administration ¶ ¶ Two days ago Baron Dr F. von Mueller in Melbourne has made a present of a valuable consignment consisting of 23 birds, 59 reptiles, 51 fishes, 170 species of insects, one ske...

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