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Ferdinand von Mueller

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Ferdinand von Mueller to Alphonse Milne-Edwards, 1895-12-01.
1/12/95. ¶ ¶ The last mail brought me, dear Prof. Milne-Edwards, a kind letter from Prof. Lacroix, ¶ Letter not found. ¶ ¶ through which I learn with joy, that the great specimen of Nickol-ore, whic...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Ellis Rowan, 1895-12-01.
Sunday, 1 Dec. 1895. ¶ ¶ One of the most elevating letters, which I received in my whole life, dear Mrs Rowan, is yours written on the Colombus-Day, ¶ in which you convey the most cheering expressio...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Hercules Robinson, 1895-12-03.
Melbourne, 3rd December, 1895. ¶ ¶ You showed me, dear Sir Hercules, nearly forty years ago, the great consideration of consulting me with reference to arrangements for the formation of a Botanic Gar...
Eugene Hilgard to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1895-12-03.
December 3, 1895. ¶ Baron F. von Mueller, Melbourne. ¶ My dear Sir, ¶ ¶ Since I wrote to you ¶ in response to your letter written shortly after your 70'th anniversary, ¶ a long siege of illness, pa...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Theodor Fries, 1895-12-08.
Melbourne, 8/12/95 ¶ ¶ I was very pleased, highly esteemed Professor, to receive your letter in last week's post, and it scarcely needs my assurance that in accordance with your wish I will gladly se...
Ferdinand von Mueller to [Robert Rogers], 1895-12-10.
10/12/95. ¶ ¶ Allow me to ask, honored Sir, whether any information has been received from the Office of the Agent General concerning the books destined for Katharinenburg, ¶ so kindly granted by th...
Ferdinand von Mueller to the Editor of the Australische Zeitung, 1895-12-11.
Melbourne, 11 December 1895. ¶ Perhaps, honoured Sir, you still have no more accurate news about the unsuccessful German expedition that traversed New Guinea for the first time and in fact at the larg...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Maurice Holtze, 1895-12-14.
14/12/95. ¶ ¶ Your telegram, dear Mr Holtze, was truly joyful news. Nothing was purchased in two places in Sydney, but I shall turn to a third. ¶ Because I sacrifice ⅔ of my salary in order to conti...
William MacGregor to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1895-12-15.
I had a specimen brought on board the ¶ Merrie England ¶ , ¶ Steam yacht in the service of the Governor of British New Guinea. ¶ where I invited Mr. W. Fitzgerald to study it. He undertook to send y...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Walter Baldwin Spencer, 1895-12-17.
17/12/95. ¶ Private ¶ ¶ My attention has been drawn to your announcement, dear Professor Spencer, in the Argus ¶ Letter to the editor,Argus, 17 December 1895, p. 5, announcing that thereport on the H...
Robert Etheridge Jr to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1895-12-18.
18th December, 1895 ¶ Dear Sir, ¶ ¶ I have received your letter of 14th inst. ¶ and thank you for the information you have given. I know that many of the Plants I desire are found not very far from ...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Walter Baldwin Spencer, 1895-12-19.
19/12/95 ¶ ¶ Was not aware, dear Prof Spencer, that the botanic Report had finally been transmitted to you as result of the Horn-Exped. ¶ If I had not been obliged to devote so much time in 1895 for...
Henry Crummer to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1895-12-27.
Queensland Chambers ¶ 18 Bridge Street ¶ Sydney. ¶ 27th December 95 ¶ To Baron Sir Ferdinand Von Mueller KCMG, PhD, FRGS, &c ¶ Melbourne Victoria...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Jacob Agardh, 1895-12-31.
31/12/95. ¶ ¶ Yesterday, highly esteemed Professor, a letter came to me from Tönsberg ¶ from Captain Kristensen, ¶ ¶ ¶ who commanded the Norwegian steamer ¶ Antarctic ¶ during the voyage to the...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Herbert Williamson, 1896-??-??.
¶ […] ¶ help to discriminate the plant systematically. What is the precise locality? ¶ 444. Also in this difficult genus the fruit, when containing well ripened seeds, give some of the best characte...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Giovanni De Toni, 1896-??-??.
¶ [The illustrious botanist Ferdinand Mueller, a resident of Melbourne, who has been sending me Australian materials for several years with the assignment that I have to draw up a "Systematic Census ...
Ferdinand von Mueller to William Webb, 1896-01-??.
This time, dear Mr. Webb, I would merely ask whether it would be impossible for you to induce the newspapers to ask settlers on or near salt bush country to send me specimens with ripe seeds (fruit) o...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Charles Neylon, 1896-01-??.
¶ [From Baron von Mueller, Melbourne, stating that the Government of India was desirous, through the office of the Hon. the Premier of Victoria, of obtaining a large quantity of marum grass seed, and...
William MacDonald to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1896-01-??.
¶ On the 3rd inst. ¶ Themonthis confirmed bya news itemdescribing the incidentinEvening news(Sydney),6January 1896, p.3. ¶ a bo ¶ at manned by Captain Clark ¶ Error for Grant? TheEvening newsand othe...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1896-01-01.
New Year 1896. ¶ Your letter, just received, dear Sir Joseph, ¶ has been immensely cheering to me, as it recognises so fully the sacrifices, made by me for maintaining the dignity and efficiency of m...
Robert Etheridge Jr to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1896-01-03.
3. I. 96 ¶ My dear Baron, ¶ ¶ Your letter re ¶ ¶ Claudea ¶ ¶ was duly received. ¶ M to R. EtheridgeJr,14 December 1895(in this edition as 95-12-14a). ¶ ¶ You ¶ ¶ may ¶ ¶ rest assured that should...
William Callaway to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1896-01-04.
4th Jan [18]96. ¶ editorial addition. ¶ Sir, ¶ ¶ I have the honor, by direction, to inform you that His Excellency the Governor in Council has been pleased to Order that your service as Government Bo...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Jacob Agardh, 1896-01-06.
6/1/96 ¶ ¶ This time, honoured friend, a consignment of prepared algae (in two parcels) just arrived here from Miss Hussey is being sent to you again, honoured friend. Number 444 is quite new to me b...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Clara Ryan, 1896-01-07.
7/1/96 ¶ ¶ It was very kind of you, dear Madam, to send me the new lot of seaweeds and also the dried specimens of the land-plants. I find among these plants some few to be new for W.A. and some new ...
Clements Markham to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1896-01-08.
¶ I wrote to Mr. Goschen, the first Lord of the Admiralty on the subject of an Antarctic expedition, but, I am sorry to say, that his reply was very disheartening. Whilst fully recognising the scient...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Alexander Macdonald, 1896-01-09.
9/1/96. ¶ ¶ Have been as overwhelmed with work, dear Mr Macdonald, as I had the additional duties of Hon. Examiner toward[s] the end of the year at several Gov. establishments, that now only most of ...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Eugene Hilgard, 1896-01-11.
11/1/96. ¶ ¶ Your just arrived letter, ¶ highly esteemed Professor, has given me quite special pleasure, since it is again a triumph for the cultivation of saltbush initiated by me. ¶ ¶ The new ach...
Ferdinand von Mueller to William Thiselton-Dyer, 1896-01-11.
11/1/96 ¶ ¶ This day, dear Dr Dyer, I posted to you a small box, containing a Flacon with essence of Boronia megastigma a plant of most powerful and peculiar flower fragrance. ¶ I fancy, that you li...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Franz Stephani, 1896-01-13.
13/1/96 ¶ ¶ I am again sending you, highly esteemed friend, some Jungermanniaceae by today's post, this time collected by Mr. C. Maplestone in a not very high range north of Port Phillip, "the Plenty...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Baldwin Spencer, 1896-01-17.
17/1/96 ¶ ¶ Herewith, dear Professor Spencer, I send you the description of the new scrophularineous genus, Elacholoma, which Prof Tate discovered, when you [w]ere out in Central Australia. ¶ Horn Sc...
Alphonse Milne-Edwards to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1896-01-17.
Paris, 17 January 1896 ¶ Dear Sir, ¶ ¶ I hasten to inform you of the safe arrival at Paris of the two boxes of collections that you have so kindly sent to the Museum through the obliging intercession...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Isaac Tyson, 1896-01-21.
21/1/96 ¶ Honored Sir ¶ ¶ I should feel much indebted if you would mention to me those ¶ indigenous ¶ grasses and pasture herbs particularly the perennial species on which horses cattle and sheep a...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Henry Crummer, 1896-01-22.
¶ [In his answer he referred to his previous efforts towards unravelling the mystery surrounding the fate of Leichhardt and his party. There was, he agreed, a possibility of Leichhardt and his compan...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Alexander Magarey, 1896-02-??.
¶ On various occasions during the last ten years I have urged that the great north-western desert of Australia, yet a blank on the map, should be explored partly for geographical reasons and partly o...
Ferdinand von Mueller to the Leader, 1896-02-??.
[ ¶ Specimen of Grass ¶ .— A. B., Boolara. ¶ Vic. ¶ — It is the Ehrharta stipoides, the "native weeping grass." It is," says Baron Von Mueller, "indigenously restricted to Continental extratropic Aust...
Ferdinand von Mueller to the Leader, 1896-02-??.
[ ¶ Cookshin Grass ¶ .— Subscriber, Melbourne.— The grass sent is the Cookshin grass, Pamium Rus Galli. ¶ Journalist's error for Panicum crus-gall? ¶ It has no similarity to what is here called Buffa...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Jacob Agardh, 1896-02-04.
4/2/96. ¶ ¶ Again I have, respected Sir, sent you a handsome number of algae freshly collected by Miss Hussey, and to which collection Dr Verco (not Vercoe) also has contributed on a voyage with the ...
Ferdinand von Mueller to [William Thiselton-Dyer], 1896-02-09.
[9.2.96] ¶ ¶ At a recent german festival here, ¶ I in proposing the health of His Excellency the Governor stood up in dignified terms for the greatest of political greatnesses that of Albion ¶ spea...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Alexander Macdonald, 1896-02-12.
12/2/96. ¶ ¶ This evening, dear Mr Macdonald, I received the enclosed letter from our friend Major Boyd. ¶ When President Thomson's ¶ communication arrives, I will draft a reply, which you can adop...
Robert Etheridge Jr to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1896-02-12.
12. ii. 96 ¶ My dear Baron, ¶ ¶ Standing arrangements exist with the various Custom-Houses within the Colonies for the admittance of ¶ ¶ our ¶ ¶ spirit-drums when sent for collecting ¶ ¶ purposes....
Ferdinand von Mueller to Eugene Hilgard, 1896-02-14.
14/2/96. ¶ ¶ As I am under the impression, highly esteemed Professor, that you do not yet have the West African ¶ wonder grass ¶ ( ¶ Panicum spectabile ¶ ) over there, which I have introduced into ...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Edward Ramsay, 1896-02-14.
14/2/96 ¶ ¶ Some weeks ago, dear Dr Ramsay, I learnt to my great joy, from Mr Frogatt, ¶ that your health had greatly improved, so that you could feel renewed delight in science work as in days gone...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Walter Campbell, 1896-02-16.
16/2/96. ¶ ¶ Without wishing to be intrusive, dear Mr. Campbell, I like to mention that I am reminded of my promise to send to Europe fruits (not very many) of ¶ Atkinsonia ligustrina ¶ for anatomi...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Franz Stephani, 1896-02-26.
26/2/96 ¶ ¶ Enclosed, highly esteemed Mr Stephani, some of your favourite little plants, this time from New Guinea, from which I am hoping to receive even more of such plants during 1896. ¶ ¶ I am j...
Ferdinand von Mueller to James Butler, 1896-03-??.
This involved ¶ Involves? ¶ incessant operations in your winterless region, where the growth of these plants remains uninterrupted through the year. Under ordinary circumstances the two plants allude...
Eugene Hilgard to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1896-03-??.
The Keris County ¶ Journalist's error for Kern County, the county of California adjacent to Tulare County, where the University experimental station was situated? See note 2 to E. Hilgard to M, 26 Mar...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Ellis Rowan, 1896-03-03.
3/3/96. ¶ ¶ Your genial letter, ¶ dear Madam, has reached me, the one of the 17 Jan, and I feel very much indebted for the generous sentiments, which you evince towards me, and for the spirited exer...
James Butler to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1896-03-05.
Sir, ¶ ¶ I have been directed by the Hamilton Borough Council to request you to kindly advise as to which you consider the best means of eradicating the star thistle and Bathurst burr which are becom...
Ferdinand von Mueller to William Setchell, 1896-03-05.
Dictated ¶ Melbourne 5-3-96 ¶ ¶ Let me acknowledge dear Professor Setchell the receipt of your kind letter dated 3th February, ¶ and let me assure you that I shall always be glad to hear from you. I...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Alexander Macdonald, 1896-03-06.
6/3/96. ¶ ¶ Let me say in reply to your kind letter, just received, dear Mr McDonald, that in my opinion any Easter-tour, if our Council-Colleagues ¶ and their friends can afford the expenditure, sh...

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