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Ferdinand von Mueller to William Hooker, 1865-05-25.
25/5/65 ¶ Dear Sir William. ¶ ¶ The large quantity of seeds of hardy shrubs & trees, which you have been so kind to forward from Kew, together with the case of bulbs & cacti, have arrived. ¶ The con...
Ferdinand von Mueller to George Bentham, 1865-05-25.
25/5/65 ¶ Dear Mr Bentham. ¶ ¶ Your letter of the 26/3 has arrived. Probably by the Sussex, to sail in about 2 weeks, I shall send you a box with specimens supplementing the material for vol. 3. ¶ I...
Ferdinand von Mueller to William Hooker, 1865-06-09.
9/6/65 ¶ Dear Sir William. ¶ ¶ I have sent a box with supplemental Myrtaceae, Araliaceae, Loranthaceae, Onagreae, ¶ Rubiaceae Cucurbitaceae & a few other calyciflorous orders this day pr Sussex to y...
Ferdinand von Mueller to William Hooker, 1865-06-24.
24/6/65 ¶ Dear & venerable Sir William. ¶ Through the disaster, which befel the steamer Bombay possibly one set of my letters to you has been lost & certainly I shall be prevented (as the substituted ...
George Bentham to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1865-06-26.
25, WILTON PLACE, S.W. ¶ June 26 /65 ¶ My dear Sir ¶ ¶ I have just had forwarded from Kew to the Agent to ship for you two boxes containing all your Myrtaceae except Eucalyptus and one small parcel o...
Ferdinand von Mueller to George Bentham, 1865-07-14.
14/7/65 ¶ ¶ Your kind letter of 25/4 dear Mr Bentham, did not arrive in time to be answered by last months mail It is my intention to send you soon all the Compositae, a very extensive, beautiful & i...
George Bentham to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1865-07-23.
25, WILTON PLACE, S.W. ¶ July 23/65 ¶ My dear Sir ¶ ¶ I write a few lines to say that being in town for a day or two (my vacation time has commenced) I find your letter of the 21st April and at the s...
Ferdinand von Mueller to George Bentham, 1865-08-21.
21/8/65 ¶ ¶ Your letter of the 26 June, dear Mr Bentham, has reached me in due time. ¶ I am wondering and amazed, how you are able to carry so much work on within so short a time, even though I assu...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Alexander Braun, 1865-09-29.
Melbourne Botanic Garden, ¶ 29 September 1865. ¶ Esteemed Professor, ¶ ¶ A compatriot, Mr S. W. Errant, ¶ offered to take a few things to you on his homeward journey to Europe, an opportunity of whi...
Ferdinand von Mueller to William Hooker, 1865-09-29.
29/9/65 ¶ Venerable and dearest friend. ¶ ¶ I despatch to day the 27th box of dry plants to Kew. It contains rather more than ⅓ ¶ ¶ of the Compositae, which Mr Bentham desires according to his last...
George Bentham to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1865-10-18.
25, WILTON PLACE, S.W ¶ . ¶ Oct 18/65 ¶ My dear Sir ¶ ¶ Since I wrote I have received yours of the 14th July for which I thank you and I have seen also the specimens you sent by the same mail address...
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 ...
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...
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, 1866-05-26.
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, 1866-07-28.
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 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, 1867-06-17.
Paris June 17/67 ¶ My dear Sir ¶ ¶ Before I left London I was so constantly occupied that I had not a moment to acknowledge your last letter. ¶ Owing to Dr Hooker's engagements a great deal of seein...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Carl von Martius, 1868-03-03.
Melbourne Botanic Garden, ¶ 3 March 1868. ¶ ¶ The last mail brought once more a wonderful letter from you, ¶ illustrious friend. O! how delighted I was to be able to gaze into your face, when I rece...
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...
Ferdinand von Mueller to George Bennett, 1876-12-??.
Report of Baron von Mueller, F.R.S., &c. ¶ ¶ The collection of plants brought together by Signor D'Albertis ¶ during his last expedition to New Guinea is of particular interest, inasmuch as thus for...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Alphonse de Candolle, 1877-06-05.
Melbourne ¶ 5/6/77. ¶ ¶ Being aware, dear and honored Sir, that you have sought the aid of phytographers in the elucidation of the plants for your series of monographie's, I beg to ask, whether you w...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Edward Ramsay, 1878-04-04.
Thursday ¶ ¶ I write this from Gippsland, dear Mr Ramsay, and will return to you the NZ Cyperaceae & Restiaceae so soon as I return. ¶ It is not in my recollection that your letter asked for the ret...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Jean Müller, 1878-06-10.
10/6/78 ¶ ¶ I have still not acknowledged the receipt of your kind consignment of selected dry plants, dear Professor, but they arrived here only two weeks ago. Very gladly shall I continue the excha...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Decaisne, 1878-07-08.
8/7/78. ¶ ¶ I merely write a few lines, dear Prof De Caisne, to say, that I have forwarded to the Institute by this post a copy of the English Edition (enlarged by me) of Wittsteins Chemistry of plan...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Alphonse de Candolle, 1878-10-24.
24/10/78. ¶ ¶ These lines, honored and dear Sir, are adressed to you from my sickbed, on which I have been thrown for some weeks, but I am gradually recovering and hope to move about again in a few d...
Ferdinand von Mueller to the Gardeners' Chronicle, 1879-02-??.
¶ No one ¶ should recommend the Eucalypts for utilitarian culture ¶ en gros ¶ in any region subject to severe frosts, nor can many species be cultivated in damp tropical lowlands, though the speci...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Odoardo Beccari, 1880-02-05.
5/2/80. ¶ Your consignment of Sumatra-plants, dear Dr Beccari, has arrived safely, ¶ and I thank you for your kindness of contributing them to my collections, which were hitherto poor in material fro...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Otto Tepper, 1880-09-12.
12/9/80. ¶ ¶ Yesterday, dear Mr Tepper, I received from Mr Nitzschke the Eucalyptus oils from the material that you delivered. He is prepared to distil even more. ¶ Therefore should you have any oth...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Otto Tepper, 1880-10-21.
21/10/80 ¶ ¶ Still I have not been able to carry out any thorough investigation on ¶ your ¶ Prasophyllum ¶ , dear Mr Tepper, ¶ but will do it when the work for the ¶ exhibition ¶ is over. In the...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Otto Tepper, 1884-10-08.
8/10/84. ¶ ¶ Herewith, esteemed Mr Tepper, I am sending the letter of Mr Clarke ¶ back to you. When you write to him, kindly tell him that he is free to make use of my name as reference for the cont...
Sidney Johnson to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1884-11-13.
Meredith ¶ Nov. 13th ¶ Sir, ¶ ¶ I forward with this 7 specimens. No 1 appears to me somewhat similar to Dillwynia Ericifolia. ¶ (2) Burchardia Umbellata?...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Maiden, 1887-11-??.
¶ [Mr. Maiden stated that among the plants collected up till now by Mr. Bäuerlen, … were ten species not hitherto known from New South Wales, and these he wished on behalf of Baron von Mueller, K.C.M...
George Perrin to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1892-09-10.
Forest Branch ¶ Melbourne ¶ Sept 10 1892 ¶ My Dear Baron ¶ ¶ I must apologise for not replying to your kind letter in re naming the Eucalypt from Tasmania after myself. The fact is I have been away f...
Joseph Maiden to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1893-03-10.
TECHNOLOGICAL MUSEUM, SYDNEY. ¶ MEMO. from the CURATOR to ¶ 10th March ¶ 189 ¶ 3 ¶ Dear Baron von Mueller, ¶ ¶ I beg to invite your attention to what appears to me to be an undescribed plant. It is ...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Adolf Engler, 1893-09-09.
9/9/93. ¶ ¶ Yesterday, highly esteemed Professor, the two so valuable parcels of Hawaii ferns arrived here from the Smithsonian Institute, for which I express my best thanks. I shall strive to produc...