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Ferdinand von Mueller to George Bentham, 1865-11-26.
26/11/65 ¶ My dear Mr Bentham. ¶ ¶ Your letter of 21. Sept. is lying before me. It is wonderful to see you proceed so rapidly with the elucidation of genera in general and of species as regards the A...
Ferdinand von Mueller to George Bentham, 1865-12-25.
25/12/65 ¶ ¶ Only the helichrysoid Compositae, dear Mr Bentham, are remaining to be sent to you; these will soon follow the two other boxes Compositae despatched in Sept by the Kent & in Nov by the Y...
George Bentham to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1866-01-18.
25 Wilton Place ¶ London S.W. ¶ Jany 18 1866 ¶ My dear Sir ¶ ¶ Your case of Compositae arrived safe a short time since....
Ferdinand von Mueller to George Bentham, 1866-01-24.
24/1/66 ¶ ¶ It was my intention, dear Mr Bentham, to have sent you the rest of Compositae this month, but it was impossible. A number of queries concerning ferns rendered it necessary to spend for 2 ...
Ferdinand von Mueller to George Grey, 1866-01-29.
29/1/66. ¶ ¶ I feel greatly obliged for your Excellency's generous attention, in sending me an other very valuable consignment of the Areca seeds. Thus I am enabled to raise a large number of this ha...
Ferdinand von Mueller to George Bentham, 1866-02-05.
5./2./66. ¶ Dear Mr Bentham. ¶ ¶ I have done a little among gnaphaloid Compositae, but the work of defining the genera anew involves much patient research extended not only to the Australian but also...
George Bentham to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1866-02-18.
25, WILTON PLACE, S.W. ¶ London ¶ 18 Feby 1866 ¶ My dear Sir ¶ ¶ The "Yorkshire" by which you sent the second box of Compositae is I see reported as arrived so that I presume in a few days we shall h...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Thomas Anderson, 1866-02-24.
24/2/66 ¶ Dear Dr Anderson ¶ ¶ By this months mail steamer I beg to send you a parcel with Corypha seeds fresh collected. Our species (Corypha or Livistona Australis) will stand occasional frosts & i...
George Bentham to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1866-03-19.
25, WILTON PLACE, S.W. ¶ March 1866 ¶ My dear Sir ¶ ¶ Your second box of Compositae (Aster etc) has safely arrived per Yorkshire and has reached Kew. ¶ ¶ Your letter of the 25th Decr ¶ reached me t...
Ferdinand von Mueller to George Bentham, 1866-03-24.
24/3/66. ¶ ¶ I have been so harrassed, dear Mr Bentham, during this rainless season, that any close application to phytographic work was absolutely out of the question. Now since the summer passed I ...
George Bentham to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1866-04-19.
25, WILTON PLACE, S.W. ¶ London ¶ April 19/66 ¶ My dear Sir ¶ ¶ As usual your letter ¶ arrived last month the day after the Australian mail was despatched. I am rather sorry to find that the remaini...
Ferdinand von Mueller to George Bentham, 1866-04-23.
St George's Day 1866. ¶ ¶ The "Lincolnshire", dear Mr Bentham, has not yet arrive, though overdue; I trust that nothing happened to her, & that the 3 cases with Eucalypti, the most important section ...
George Bentham to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1866-05-18.
25, WILTON PLACE, S.W. ¶ 18 May 1866 ¶ My dear Sir ¶ ¶ I have to acknowledge yours of the 5th Feby ¶ received a few days after I last wrote. I am at present overwhelmed with work. Besides the Flora ...
Ferdinand von Mueller to George Bentham, 1866-05-26.
26/5/66 ¶ ¶ The dreadful season of rainlessness, dear Mr Bentham, made for the time any botanical work an impossibility. The drought at last is broken now & though severe winter work still presses on...
George Bentham to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1866-06-18.
25, WILTON PLACE, S.W. ¶ June 18/66 ¶ My dear Sir ¶ ¶ Since last mail I have received yours of the 24th March ¶ — In answer to which ¶ in the first place I enclose a memorandum from Weddell ¶ — th...
Ferdinand von Mueller to George Bentham, 1866-06-26.
26/6/66 ¶ ¶ I have enclosed, dear Mr Bentham, in the letter for Dr Hooker ¶ ripe fruit (berries) of Abrophyllum. The ¶ enormous ¶ extrawork of the season kept me strictly to the work of my Directo...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1866-07-21.
21/7/66. ¶ Dear Dr Hooker ¶ ¶ I have sent you by the Yorkshire leaving this day the remainder of the Compositae for Bentham's Work. I filled up interstices with fruits of, fresh & ripe hence with see...
George Bentham to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1866-07-22.
July 22 1866 ¶ My dear Sir ¶ ¶ I was very glad to hear of the safe arrival of the Lincolnshire with the Eucalypti ¶ — I was rather uneasy after the loss of the London ¶ and knowing that the Lincoln...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Alexander Braun, 1866-07-27.
Melbourne, botanic Garden, ¶ 27 July 1866. ¶ Magnificence! ¶ ¶ You have espoused the search for Leichhardt in such a noble manner, that it would be an offence against duty not to inform you immediate...
Ferdinand von Mueller to George Bentham, 1866-07-28.
28/7/66 ¶ ¶ A variety of circumstances, which it is but right I should explain to you, dear Mr Bentham, delayed the shipment of the rest of the Compositae til for the sailing of the Yorkshire, which ...
Ferdinand von Mueller to George Bentham, 1866-08-26.
26/8/66 ¶ ¶ By last mail, dear Mr Bentham, I did inform you, that I had shipped the rest of the Compositae by the ¶ Yorkshire ¶ , which ship left on the 21. July. It was one box, chiefly containing ...
Ferdinand von Mueller to George Bentham, 1866-09-22.
2/9/66 ¶ ¶ I trust, dear Mr Bentham, that long before this letter reaches you, the remaining Compositae will have come into your hands. On the causes of the delay of sending the plants I have fully e...
George Bentham to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1866-09-25.
25, WILTON PLACE, S.W. ¶ Sept 25 1866 ¶ My dear Sir ¶ ¶ I have now returned to my work which I have commenced this morning at Kew I there found yours of the 26th June which I proceed to answer. ¶ ¶ ...
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...
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 George Bentham, 1866-12-25.
Christmas 1866. ¶ ¶ I am glad, dear Mr Bentham, to learn that the Yorkshire arrived & thus hope my plants will have reached you in time. ¶ I am engaged preparing Goodeniaceae & Epacrideae as a first...
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 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, 1867-11-15.
Melbourne bot Garden ¶ 15/11/67. ¶ ¶ It gave me great pleasure, dear Dr Hooker, to receive the 3 part of the first vol. of the genera plantarum, ¶ in which such a wonderful amount of research is bro...
Ferdinand von Mueller to George Bentham, 1868-09-21.
Melbourne bot. Garden ¶ 2[1]/9/68. ¶ ¶ After all, dear Mr Bentham, I received the proofsheets you so kindly sent, by last mail. ¶ They were accidentally first sent to Sydney & came after the last ma...
Ferdinand von Mueller to George Bentham, 1868-12-05.
5/12/68. ¶ ¶ I have to answer, dear Mr Bentham, to your kind letter of the 2 Oct — I am glad to perceive you are well and again busy. I am looking forward with pleasure to the continuance of your val...
Ferdinand von Krauss to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1869-??-??.
[Desiderata of woods from New Holland. ¶ (after von Mueller notes on the vegetation of Melbourne 1866.) ¶ ] ¶ [better to say: from those woods listed in his notes we have represented only the families...
George Bentham to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1870-07-08.
25, WILTON PLACE. S.W ¶ . ¶ July 8 /70 ¶ My dear Sir ¶ ¶ I send off by this post eight more sheets of the Flora Australiensis and have just corrected the first proof of the last sheet of the volume a...
Ferdinand von Mueller to George Bentham, 1870-09-06.
6/9/70 ¶ ¶ By last mail, dear Mr Bentham, and by this, I sent you the continuation of the brief emendatory remarks on the pages of the 5th volume, which you kindly forwarded to me. ¶ This new volume...
George Bentham to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1870-10-27.
25, WILTON PLACE. S.W. ¶ Oct 27 /70 ¶ My dear Sir ¶ ¶ I have several letters of yours to acknowledge and thank you for but on looking them over I do not see anything requiring any special answer. The...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1871-01-24.
Melbourne ¶ 24/1/71 ¶ ¶ I am glad to hear, dear Dr Hooker, that you are proceeding so well with the genera. ¶ When you will have done the Rubiaceae and Mr Bentham the Compositae, there will be less ...
George Bentham to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1871-03-15.
March 15 1871 ¶ My dear Sir ¶ ¶ It is a long while since I have written to you and I have several of your letters to thank you for but I have so very much of writing to get through that I entirely ne...
Joseph Hooker to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1871-04-04.
P & O. St. V. Massilia ¶ April 4 /71. ¶ Dear Dr Mueller ¶ ¶ I am on my way for a much needed relaxation to Tangier (via Gibraltar) where I shall spend some weeks & hope to get some good plants. I wro...
George Bentham to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1871-11-23.
25, WILTON PLACE. S.W. ¶ Novr 23 /71 ¶ My dear Sir ¶ ¶ I am very happy to hear from your letter to Dr Hooker that you have got over your troubles that had annoyed you so long. ¶ ¶ I have now gone th...
George Bentham to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1871-12-25.
25, WILTON PLACE. S.W. ¶ Decr 25 /71 ¶ My dear Sir ¶ ¶ I can now at last report that I am fairly at work at the sixth vol. of Flora Australiensis ¶ and if health and strength admit hope to go on ste...
George Bentham to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1872-01-25.
25, WILTON PLACE. S.W. ¶ London ¶ Jany 25 /72 ¶ My dear Sir ¶ ¶ I write you a few lines to say that I have duly received the £100 contributed by your Government towards the 6th vol. and that I am pro...
Ferdinand von Mueller to George Bentham, 1872-03-18.
Melbourne ¶ bot Garden ¶ 18/3/72 ¶ ¶ By the steamship "Northumberland," ¶ dear Mr Bentham, I have at last sent a case with more plants for your use. This is the first sending after nearly ¶ three ¶...
Ferdinand von Mueller to George Bentham, 1872-05-19.
Melbourne ¶ bot Garden ¶ 19/[5]/7[2] ¶ ¶ I am always delighted, dear Mr Bentham, to see your handwriting and to read your kind and instructive letters. Let me thank you for all your sympathy. There i...
Ferdinand von Mueller to George Bentham, 1872-06-20.
Melbourne bot Garden ¶ 20/6/72 ¶ ¶ It is pleasing, dear Mr Bentham, to see you advance so well with the Euphorbiaceae. ¶ It will be a very complete vol that 6th, ¶ more so than the first 2 or 3, as...
Joseph Hooker to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1872-06-22.
June 22 /72. ¶ My dear Baron ¶ ¶ I have several letters to thank you for, which I shall now proceed to discuss. ¶ ¶ I have already informed you of the safe arrival of the noble Tree Ferns & of our h...
Ferdinand von Mueller to George Bentham, 1873-07-15.
Melbourne bot Museum ¶ 15/7/73 ¶ ¶ I have to thank you, dear and venerable Sir, for some new proof-sheets of the new volume, ¶ and it is gratifying to see the work proceed so well. From the enclosed...
Ferdinand von Mueller to George Bentham, 1873-08-31.
Melbourne ¶ 31/8/73. ¶ ¶ It was with much delight, dear Mr Bentham, that I got and perused the 5 new sheets of the 6th volume. ¶ How it was possible for you, amidst the enormous work, entailed by th...
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 Otto Tepper, 1879-11-01.
1/11/79 ¶ ¶ In answer to your letter of 26 October, ¶ I should like to remark, dear Mr Tepper, that the ¶ fruit ¶ must show whether ¶ Rhagodia nutans ¶ includes two specific forms; what seems to...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Ralph Tate, 1882-06-??.
¶ Desmodium nemorosum = D. polycarpum, D.C. ¶ ¶ Tephrosia 2 is Galactia Muelleri B., unless it comprises besides a third Austral. species (G. Tatei ¶ No species has been described under this name (A...

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