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Ferdinand von Mueller to Nicholas Holtze, 1891-10-03.
3/10/91 ¶ ¶ Your Fringlily, 1310, dear Mr Holtze, is Thysanotus chrysanthereus. Is it an annual? Could you ascertain this by pot-culture? Are the anthers always yellow? 1300 Solanum Could I get a spe...
Richard Helms to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1891-10-04.
Fraser Ranges ¶ 4th October 1891 ¶ Baron von Mueller ¶ Your Honour ¶ ¶ In sending the friendliest greetings from here, I permit myself to notify you that in about 14 days a wagon from the station ne...
Friedrich Schmitz to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1891-10-12.
Cleve ¶ 12.10.91. ¶ Most esteemed Baron! ¶ ¶ It is again from Cleve that I am writing to you to answer your last letter ¶ and to thank you very much for your last kind consignment. At the close of ...
George Verdon to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1891-11-24.
PROTECTION OF NATIVE BIRDS ¶ My Dear Baron ¶ , — Will you permit me to express my great satisfaction that you are giving your valuable aid and influence to the protection of ¶ ¶ the ¶ ¶ insectivorou...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Adolf Engler, 1891-12-14.
Melbourne 14 Dec. 91. ¶ Melbourne, 14 Dec. 91 ¶ ¶ It was my intention, highly esteemed Professor, to answer your last letter ¶ Letter not found. ¶ ¶ already by the previous mail, but lack of time di...
Ferdinand von Mueller to the Central Bureau of Agriculture of South Australia, 1892-??-??.
¶ [Seeds of nine ¶ ¶ varieties ¶ ¶ of Californian ¶ ¶ native phylloxera-resistant ¶ ¶ vines ¶ ¶ were presented ¶ ¶ to the ¶ ¶ Central ¶ ¶ Bureau, ¶ ¶ first ¶ ¶ by the Director of State Fore...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Georg Luehmann, 1892-??-??.
¶ It would be good to draw the staminodes in comparison to those from Helms’s plant, also from the original of ¶ ¶ D. virescens ¶ . Are they r ¶ eal ¶ l ¶ y ¶ ¶ as wide as drawn on Helms’s plant. ¶...
Ferdinand von Mueller to the Gardeners' Chronicle, 1892-01-??.
¶ The latest expeditions of Sir William Macgregor ¶ have again afforded material for augmenting our knowledge of the native vegetation of British New Guinea, not only in reference to further systema...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Thomas Wilson, 1892-01-23.
23/1/92. ¶ ¶ I see with surprise, dear Mr Wilson, that in the Argus a statement appeared, meant very kindly about my retirement as Gov. Botanist. ¶ On 23 January 1892 theArguspublished the following:...
Gustav Eisen to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1892-02-??.
We have had genuine Smyrna figs growing here for over 12 years, but so far not a single fruit has matured of its own account. But last July I pollinated some 20 figs by means of the pollen from the ma...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Adolf Engler, 1892-02-04.
4/2/92. ¶ ¶ Since I wrote my last letter, highly esteemed Professor, the circumstances in my department have changed so unfavourably that all my plans for the future must be changed and so also my pr...
Thomas Wilson to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1892-02-11.
11 Feby.1892 ¶ Memo ¶ ¶ The Government Botanist is requested to state approximately what will be the amounts unexpended on the 31st. March next out of his Vote for "Contingencies" giving the amount u...
Ferdinand von Mueller to the Gardeners' Chronicle, 1892-03-??.
¶ In ¶ the year 1854 it was demonstrated by myself that the most southern place reached by Palms in continental Australia was near the entrance to the Snowy River, at 37° 30', where Livistona austral...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Charles French, 1892-03-??.
¶ The Cryptostylis found by you in the Dandenong Ranges, dear Mr. French, ¶ Charles French Snr.The specimen is atMEL 1540852and hasa label in M's hand identifying the collector as 'C. French'.The fol...
Nicholas Holtze to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1892-03-07.
BOTANIC GARDEN ¶ PORT DARWIN ¶ SOUTH AUSTRALIA ¶ 7th March ¶ 18 ¶ 92 ¶ Sir Ferd. Baron Von Mueller K.C.M.G. &c &c...
Ferdinand von Mueller to the Linnean Society of London, 1892-03-18.
We the Undersigned beg to recommend ¶ ¶ Robert Hedger-Wallace Esqr., ¶ Lecturer in the Department of Agriculture, Melbourne, for the Fellowship of the Linnean Society of London, which distinction he ...
Ferdinand von Mueller to William Thiselton-Dyer, 1892-04-17.
Easter, 1892. ¶ ¶ Since some time, dear Dr Dyer, it was my intention, to write to you, more particularly in reference to some alterations in the working means also of my Department, decided on in the...
David Lindsay to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1892-04-27.
Hutt Street, Adelaide ¶ 27th April 1892 ¶ Baron Von Mueller K.C.M.G. Ph D MD. &c &c &c &c ¶ Melbourne ¶ Dear Sir,...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Edward Wright, 1892-05-??.
¶ These Todeas will only endure slight frosts, and they like some irrigation. During my forty-five years of uninterrupted researches in Australia, I have only met with about ten gigantic specimens of...
Ferdinand von Mueller to William Thiselton-Dyer, 1892-06-17.
17/6/92 ¶ ¶ Herewith, dear Dr Dyer, some seeds of Eucal. drepanophylla, of which species I was only recently able to distribute seeds, such not having been accessible to me in former years. As this i...
Ferdinand von Mueller to William Thiselton-Dyer, 1892-06-21.
21/6/92. ¶ ¶ Your letter of May 6th is just to hand, dear Dr Dyer, ¶ and as in 3 hours the weekly mail closes I hasten to say, that the account for Dr Henry’s plants was passed by me on to treasury ...
Ferdinand von Mueller to William Woolls, 1892-08-??.
¶ It is indeed an irreparable loss, not only to our favourite science but to ourselves personally, who have learned to appreciate his sterling character in life. Your communication came to me with al...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Walter Gill, 1892-09-06.
6/9/92 ¶ ¶ In reply to your letter, ¶ just received, dear Mr Gill, I beg to direct your attention to Capt Ellwood Cooper's small volume on "Eucalyptus-trees," published 1876 in San Francisco, ¶ bec...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Otto Tepper, 1892-09-28.
28/9/92 ¶ ¶ Your supposed ¶ Gastrolobium Callistachys ¶ , esteemed Mr Tepper, is ¶ Oxylobium parviflorum ¶ Bentham. Your ¶ Gastrolobium hamulosum ¶ is ¶ G. ¶ parvifolium ¶ Benth. I have repea...
Ferdinand von Mueller to the Leader, 1892-11-02.
The herb is the Australian Centaury Herb, Erythraea Australis. It Is closely allied to the British Centaury, and, like that one, is a good tonic, these plants belonging to the Gentian family. They are...
Ferdinand von Mueller to John Shillinglaw, 1892-12-10.
10/12/92 ¶ ¶ Your kind call, dear Mr Shillinglaw, reminds me of my remissness in not having answered yet your last kind letter; but I have been so over-taxed in my strenght for many weeks past, that ...
John Mann to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1892-12-28.
18 Bridge Street ¶ Sydney. ¶ 28th Decr 92 ¶ Sir, ¶ ¶ At the request of the President, Mr. E. C. Merewether, who regrets that he is unable through severe indisposition to reply in person to your lette...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Veit Wittrock, 1893-01-08.
Melbourne, 8/1/93. ¶ ¶ By the last weekly post, highly esteemed Professor, I expressed my deepest gratitude to the ¶ ¶ Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences directly for the enormous honour that was gi...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Otto Tepper, 1893-02-02.
2/2/93. ¶ ¶ It must be very uplifting for you, dear Mr Tepper, that you have such a talented son, ¶ who also already has instilled such a great confidence amongst his local citizens. ¶ ¶ I will alw...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Fletcher, 1893-02-24.
24/2/93 ¶ ¶ Will you be so kind, dear Mr Fletcher, to let me know, what will be the ¶ latest ¶ ¶ date ¶ , at which I can send the intended essay for the Macleay volume on the systematic and statis...
Frederick Bailey to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1893-03-??.
¶ Circular. ¶ Having been requested by a large number of the Botanical public, who take an interest in the Australian Flora, to compile for publication a supplementary volume to the "Flora Australien...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Jean Müller, 1893-03-25.
25/3/93. ¶ ¶ My best thanks ¶ ¶ should ¶ ¶ be expressed to you, noble Friend, for the sending of new lichenological brochures. It is amazing what capacity for work you produce and also remarkable t...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Henry, 1893-03-29.
29/3/93. ¶ Dear Sir ¶ ¶ Doubtless also in the Mechanics Inst. Library of Portland is a copy of my work on "Select plants for industrial culture"; in this book you will find also an account of the Coa...
Catherine Scrivener to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1893-04-04.
Guildford ¶ April 4 /93 ¶ To Baron Fred Mueller PH & MD ¶ Dear Sir ¶ ¶ having a very large Book for sale on Botany I thought perhaps you would like it as it was published MDCCLVII being now 136 years...
Johann Eckert to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1893-04-19.
Kirchheim ¶ Apr 19. 1893 ¶ Esteemed ¶ ¶ Baron! ¶ ¶ I am sending you the analytical drawing of the desired Salsolacea by the outgoing post. Fortunately I received your letter last Friday evening ¶...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Thomas Bride, 1893-05-13.
13/5/93 ¶ ¶ Allow me, dear Dr Bride, to ask you, whether you can give me, ¶ without ¶ ¶ much ¶ ¶ trouble ¶ to yourself any information, whether the " ¶ Salcolaceous plants ¶ ", when successivel...
Frederick Bailey to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1893-05-25.
May 25th [189]3 ¶ Dear Baron ¶ ¶ I see by a notice in one of our Brisbane papers, ¶ that you have forwarded to the entomologist of the Queensland Museum ¶ a specimen of Fagus moorei ¶ F.v.M ¶ . st...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Frederick Bailey, 1893-05-31.
Copy ¶ Melbourne, 31st May 1893 ¶ Sir ¶ ¶ in reply to your letter of the 25th inst. ¶ I have the honor to inform you that Fagus Moorei was discovered some time ago by Mr R. Collins on high mountains...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Thomas Bride, 1893-06-06.
Private ¶ 6/6/93. ¶ ¶ Allow me to send for your inspection, dear Dr Bride, herewith the magnificent work published in Germany for the Columbus-Jubilee. ¶ If your grand Library not as yet has it, I w...
Ferdinand von Mueller to the Editor of the Indian Forester, 1893-06-24.
Sir, ¶ ¶ Since the fiftieth year of this century and during several years' field studies before that time, I have exerted myself for the introduction and extensive cultivation of the ¶ best ¶ speci...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Alexander Morton, 1893-07-??.
¶ With much pleasure, dear Mr. Morton, I respond to the request of the Royal Society of Tasmania, as moved by your distinguished Fellow, Mr. R. M. Johnston, and supported by the Hon. N. J. Brown, tha...
Ferdinand von Mueller to William Dale, 1893-07-??.
¶ [ ¶ We have received from Mr. William Dale, of this city, a copy of a drawing of a poisonous plant — Homeria — which has recently been forwared ¶ forwarded? ¶ to him by Baron von Muller, and which...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Jacob Agardh, 1893-07-04.
4/7/93. ¶ ¶ By today's post, noble friend, I am sending off to you (registered) 4 small packets of algae that arrived yesterday evening from our splendid J. Br. Wilson. According to the mail regulati...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Franz Stephani, 1893-07-04.
4/7/93. ¶ ¶ It is probably not necessary, esteemed friend, that I answer your circular in French. ¶ Firstly I would like to remark that I do not endorse Dumortier's opinion (which he published in th...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Nathaniel McKay, 1893-08-07.
¶ As regards barilla, I fear the gain would not be satisfactory, considering distance of soap factories from the source of supply, value of land, cost of cultivation, extraction and crystallisation. ...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Thomas Bride, 1893-08-11.
11/8/93. ¶ ¶ I am almost ashamed to write these lines to you, dear Dr Bride, but would venture to ask, whether the small amount for the Columbus-publication will be possibly soon available; but — pra...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Franz Stephani, 1893-08-21.
21/8/93. ¶ ¶ With this week's post, very respected Mr Stephani, I am sending you 2 envelopes filled with Jungermanniaceae (I prefer this expression to that of Hepaticae on account of the much more su...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Henry Deane, 1893-09-07.
7/9/93. ¶ ¶ The work of our lamented friend ¶ R. D. Fitzgerald. ¶ ¶ on Orchids, dear Mr Deane, is such a special feature in the scientific ¶ ¶ litterature ¶ ¶ of N.SW., that I would not for a mome...
Frederick Bailey to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1893-09-13.
September 13th [189]3 ¶ Dear Baron ¶ ¶ I have to thank you for your [most] kind letter lately received. ¶ I have no doubt but that in writing up the supplementary volume for our Flora, you will able...
the Horsham Times to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1893-10-23.
¶ [We have forwarded the sample of weed submitted to us to Baron Von Mueller, and will be able probably, in our next issue, to give that learned botanist's opinion on the matter.] ¶ No report of M's ...

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