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Ferdinand von Mueller

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Ferdinand von Mueller to Carl von Martius, 1866-09-26.
Melbourne Royal Botanic Garden, ¶ 26 September 1866. ¶ ¶ I hesitated, noble Sir, to approach you in the midst of the horror of the war. ¶ Your mind must have been troubled enough, having watched fro...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Redmond Barry, 1866-10-05.
5/10/66. ¶ Dear Sir Redmond. ¶ ¶ I feel grateful for your assurance, that you will kindly bring my proposition for adding a few books to the the ¶ valuable set in the bot. section of the public Libr...
Joseph Hooker to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1866-10-19.
Kew ¶ Oct 19/66 ¶ My dear Mueller ¶ ¶ By this mail I send a box ¶ overland ¶ with ¶ Succulents, ¶ Willows &c. all that are fit to go at this season I hope you will at last be satisfied that I [do...
Joseph Hooker to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1866-10-23.
My dear Mueller ¶ ¶ Enclosed is the Bill of lading for the box of cuttings, succulents &c ¶ — for which we have paid freight of £7.10. ! I hope it will give you satisfaction. ¶ ¶ I see that you now...
Francis Graham to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1866-10-23.
70 SWANSTON STREET, ¶ (NEXT DOOR TO THE ROYAL MAIL HOTEL) ¶ Melbourne, ¶ Oct 23 ¶ 186 ¶ 6 ¶ Dr. to FRANCIS GRAHAM, ¶ GLASS, OIL, LEAD, COLOUR, AND PAPER-HANGINGS IMPORTER....
Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1866-10-25.
25/10/66 ¶ Dear Dr Hooker. ¶ ¶ I have been suddenly called upon as a scientific traveller of Queensland to take charge of the Queensland Courts at our Exhibition, ¶ no special Commissioner having ar...
Ferdinand von Mueller to the Editor of the Age, 1866-11-22.
Sir, ¶ ¶ I have been desired by the ladies of the Leichhardt Search Committee to submit to you a copy of the journal of the late Duncan M‘Intyre, compiled by Mr Sloman from the diary and field-books ...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Carl von Martius, 1866-11-27.
27 November 1866. ¶ ¶ I cannot, venerated Sir, put your kind private letter, ¶ so rich in content, aside unanswered until the next mail. I would rather let my thoughts skip lightly from sentence to...
Ferdinand von Mueller to George Bentham, 1866-11-27.
27/11/66 ¶ ¶ I have to reply to a kind letter from you, dear Mr Bentham, received by last mail. ¶ You will receive the fascicles of Monopetaleae in rapid succession, though I shall not be able to se...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1866-11-27.
27/11/66 ¶ ¶ My extraduties, dear Dr Hooker, connected with the Intercolonial Exhibition ¶ have been for many weeks past so heavy, that I could find no leisure for anything, & hence I can now, at th...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Thomas Anderson, 1866-11-28.
28/11/66 ¶ Dear Doctor ¶ ¶ I am indebted to you for a noble collection of cryptogamous plants received by last mail & exceedingly valuable to my Museum, where but little of those groups of plants fro...
Ferdinand von Mueller to the Editor of the Australasian, 1866-12-15.
Discovery of a True Cassowary in North-East Australia ¶ TO THE EDITOR OF THE AUSTRALASIAN. ¶ Sir, — ¶ ¶ It is my pleasing task to announce the discovery of a memorable bird belonging to the small gro...
George Bentham to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1866-12-19.
25, WILTON PLACE, S.W. ¶ London ¶ Decr 19/66 ¶ My dear Sir ¶ ¶ I send you by the bookpost this mail the remaining sheets of my 3d vol. ¶ except the last of the index which is not yet printed off — b...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Roderick Murchison, 1866-12-25.
Royal Geographical Society, London, Archives, Journal MSS, Australia, 1867, Mueller, F. (2). ¶ Christmasday, ¶ Melbourne, 1866. ¶ ¶ In first instance, dear Sir Roderick, I have to express my most ¶ ...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1866-12-25.
Christmasday, ¶ 1866 ¶ ¶ I am sorry, dear Dr Hooker, that you taxed your department so heavily in freight for the Willows & Succulents you so kindly sent by mail steamer I must not induce you to make...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1866-12-26.
26/12/66 ¶ ¶ I have to respond to your kind letters by last mail, dear Dr Hooker. ¶ If by my hasty remark on the Fungi sent to Mr Berkeley I have given that reverend and excellent man any pain, I mo...
Ferdinand von Mueller to John Balfour, 1866-12-27.
27/12/66 ¶ ¶ This day, dear Prof. Balfour, I receive with the arrival of the Great Britain bill of loading of the case with plants you so kindly sent. I shall not receive it before the mail closes, b...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Filippo Parlatore, 1866-12-28.
Melbourne Botanic Garden ¶ 28 December 1866 ¶ Dear Sir, ¶ ¶ Your friendly letters dated 25 September and 27 October ¶ have reached me and I thank you sincerely for them and also for "La Nazione" tha...
Ferdinand von Mueller to [Joseph Hooker], 1866-12-31.
Newyearseve ¶ 1866-67. ¶ ¶ I send a few lines as a late salutation to the new year. The last mail has taken to you lots of Orchid tubers & this one brings the rest. Why cannot these lovely plants be ...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Asa Gray, 1867-01-10.
Melbourne bot. Garden, 10/1/67. ¶ ¶ A fair opportunity permits itself, dear Professor, to send you some consignment & though I had but short warning and though I am extremly busy with additional duti...
Ferdinand von Mueller to August Petermann, 1867-01-22.
Melbourne Botanic Garden, ¶ 22 January 1867. ¶ ¶ You were so kind, esteemed Professor, to send me the last copies of your ¶ ¶ Mittheilungen ¶ , ¶ Mittheilungen aus Justus Perhes' geographischer Anst...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1867-01-25.
¶ [Dr J Hookers case per ¶ Great Britain ¶ , dispatched on 25 January 1867, contains:] ¶ Theodor Müller...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Filippo Parlatore, 1867-01-27.
Melbourne Botanic Garden ¶ 27/1/67 ¶ My dear Sir, ¶ ¶ By this month's mail I am sending you via your Consul at Suez, who through the intervention of my friend the excellent Chevalier Biagi committed ...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Carl von Hügel, 1867-01-29.
Melbourne Botanic Garden, ¶ 29 January 1867. ¶ Excellency, ¶ ¶ A few days ago I was most pleasantly surprised to see Mrs Smillie back once more in this country, a surprise that was all the greater, a...
Wilhelm Sonder to Ferdinand Krauss, 1867-02-19.
Hamburg, 19 February 1867. ¶ Esteemed Sir, ¶ ¶ Some time ago I received the enclosed pamphlet from friend Mueller in Melbourne. It should have been enclosed with a transmission I had to make to you o...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1867-02-22.
22/2/67 ¶ ¶ It is quite right, dear Dr Hooker, that you should decline to send any fungi to Mr Smith, but I should have imagined he was a well established observer. ¶ I have for a dozen of years sen...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Henry Manners-Sutton, 1867-02-22.
Melbourne botanic Garden ¶ 22/2/67 ¶ Sir Henry. ¶ ¶ I have the honor of submitting to your Excellency some further information received within the last days in reference to the progress of the operat...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Frederick Barlee, 1867-02-24.
Melbourne bot. Garden, ¶ 24/2/67. ¶ ¶ Allow me, honored and dear Sir, to introduce to you an esteemed friend of mine, Mr Allan Hughan, who proceeds to your colony with a view of becoming acquainted w...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Thomas Anderson, 1867-02-25.
25/2/67 ¶ ¶ I am not quite well, dear Professor, and can thus only very briefly adress you in response to your very friendly last letters. My indisposition must also be the excuse that I did not send...
Ferdinand von Mueller to George Grey, 1867-03-01.
Melbourne botanic Garden 1/3/67 ¶ ¶ Herewith, dear Sir George, I beg to offer you a sufficiency of Cinchona seeds for several hundred plants. If raised under glass, potted off and hardened to the air...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Edward Ramsay, 1867-03-14.
Stategarden 14/3/67. ¶ ¶ Yesterday, dear Mr Ramsay, I received the fine series of ferns from the New Hebrides, collected by my old travelling companion Richards. ¶ I will gladly name them, but as it...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Thomas Anderson, 1867-03-25.
25/3/67 ¶ Dear Prof Anderson. ¶ ¶ I have sent you a Case full of Araucaria by this months mail, all fine strong plants. I only trust the people will not toss them about. At the whole I am very dishea...
Ferdinand von Mueller to George Bentham, 1867-03-26.
26/3/67 ¶ ¶ This month, dear Mr Bentham, I have not much to report. Unfortunately I got the rest of the Goodeniaceae not ready for the Yorkshire, as many departmental duties stormed on me, but I shal...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1867-04-21.
Easterday ¶ 67 ¶ ¶ Your wishes, dear Dr Hooker, shall be attended to. ¶ An other case dry plants shall follow the Wellesley soon, perhaps already next week by the True Britain. ¶ Do you care for w...
Ferdinand von Mueller to the Age, 1867-05-??.
¶ Dr. ¶ Mueller ¶ desires us to state that he would feel indebted to any friend of the Gardens sending prepared specimens of any of the birds to be met with around Melbourne, for the formation of a...
Wilhelm Sonder to Ferdinand Krauss, 1867-05-09.
Neuenwall ¶ Hamburg, 9 May 1867. ¶ Dear Professor, ¶ ¶ Absent on business for some time, and after my return constantly kept busy, I was prevented from replying sooner to your friendly letter of 19 M...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Thomas Anderson, 1867-05-24.
Queensbirth day 1867. ¶ ¶ By this mail, dear Dr Anderson, you will receive 17 species of seeds. I have added a parcel for Mr Tyesmann, ¶ thinking that you can manage to send it off, for which friend...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1867-05-27.
State Garden, Melbourne ¶ 27/5/67. ¶ ¶ The recent transfer, dear Dr Hooker, of my Department from the Chief Minister to the Minister of Lands ¶ has involved me in so many additional troubles & has c...
Joseph Hooker to James Hector, 1867-05-28.
May 28/ 67. ¶ Dear Hector ¶ ¶ Thanks for your note & the interesting slips. Haast had told me of your dislocated shoulder - I am very pleased that Haast always speaks so warmly of you. I had always d...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Thomas Anderson, 1867-05-30.
30/5/67 ¶ ¶ This day, dear Prof Anderson, I have shipped to you [pr] ¶ "Medusa" a case [fu]ll of strong plants [of] Araucaria ex[ce]lsa free of freight [by the] kindness of the [Ca]ptain. Pray retur...
Ferdinand von Mueller to the Health Committee of the Corporation of Melbourne, 1867-06-??.
Memorandum of Dr Muellers ¶ ¶ wishes ¶ ¶ and suggestions to the Health Committee of the Corporation of Melbourne. ¶ ¶ That cattle and goats should be excluded from that portion of Yarra Park lying ...
Ferdinand von Mueller to James Grant, 1867-06-06.
Melbourne bot Garden, ¶ 6/6/67 ¶ Sir ¶ ¶ I have the honor to solicit, that you will be pleased to sanction the transmission by next mail of one hundred pounds Sterling (£100. -. -) to the Agent Gener...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Ronald Gunn, 1867-06-12.
Stategarden 12/6/67 ¶ ¶ At a late hour, dear Mr Gunn, I can but briefly & hurriedly respond to your most interesting letter; ¶ still to remove the impression that I advanced inconscientiously observ...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Frederick Barlee, 1867-06-25.
¶ The bituminous substance collected south of Swan River ¶ and submited to my examination, is pliable under slight force at ordinary temperatures, and when kneaded it is susceptible of very good imp...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Friedrich Wöhler, 1867-06-28.
State Garden, ¶ 28 June 1867. ¶ Noble Sir, ¶ ¶ The last monthly mail brought me your kind lines of 26 March, ¶ to which I am going to reply only briefly, as my poor state of health just now makes ex...
Wilhelm Sonder to Ferdinand Krauss, 1867-07-01.
Hamburg, 1 July 1867. ¶ Dear Professor, ¶ ¶ I received a letter today from Director von Schmidt ¶ notifying me of the arrival of the two tree-ferns. And that reminded me that I must write to you bef...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Thomas Anderson, 1867-07-18.
18/7/67 ¶ My dear Professor ¶ ¶ By the Underley ¶ I have sent you a case with strong Araucarias. Should they safely arrive place a few into a case you may send to Buitenzorg, ¶ as I am rather in Mr...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Carl von Martius, 1867-07-25.
Queenscliff, ¶ 25/7/67 ¶ ¶ I have withdrawn here into rural tranquillity, noble Sir, to strengthen my precarious health under the influence of the sea air. For ¶ six ¶ years I have not been out of...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Eduard Fenzl, 1867-07-26.
Queenscliff, ¶ 26/7/67. ¶ ¶ I am writing from the coast, noble Sir, where I am seeking restoration of my dwindled strength, after I had not left my department for a single day in 6 years. Weak as I a...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Julius Haast, 1867-07-28.
Queenscliff, ¶ 28/7/67. ¶ ¶ These lines, dear friend, I am writing to you from the coast, where I moved to find new strength in some brief rural quiet and the breathing of fresh sea air, after I had...

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