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Ferdinand von Mueller to Edward Symonds, 1883-02-01.
Melbourne, ¶ 1/2/83. ¶ To the Undertreasurer. ¶ Sir. ¶ ¶ In reply to your query or memorandum N. 1374 ¶ I beg to inform you, that ever since the first Paris "Exposition" in 1854 all contributions of...
Ferdinand von Mueller to William Thiselton-Dyer, 1883-02-24.
24/2/83 ¶ ¶ By last mail, dear Mr Dyer, I sent a photogram of fruit-amenta of Macrozamia Douglasii, also a dried male amentum and some ¶ ♂ ¶ scales of Cycas Seemannii; — by this post I hope to be a...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Messrs Watson & Scull, 1883-02-28.
Copy ¶ Melbourne, 28th February 1883 ¶ Messrs Watson & Scull ¶ London ¶ Gentlemen...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Ellwood Cooper, 1883-06-12.
12/6/83. ¶ ¶ You have placed me under further obligations, dear Capt. Cooper, by sending me an other supply of your works most liberally, for which gift I tender you my best thanks. Kindly tell me, w...
Eduard Regel to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1883-06-14.
Translation ¶ St. Petersburg, 2/14 June 1883 ¶ Honored colleague and dear friend ¶ ¶ To day I will only just announce the safe arrival of ¶ your ¶ Todea. It is really a remarkable colossus and thor...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Ferdinand von Krauss, 1883-07-29.
29/7/83 ¶ ¶ You, noble and kind friend, will receive by the sailing ship ¶ Lord Warden ¶ via London two admittedly not large boxes with natural history items that will reach you directly through Me...
Thomas Wilson to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1884-03-03.
Chief Secretary's Office, ¶ Melbourne ¶ 3. March ¶ 18 ¶ 84 ¶ Memo, No. 728 ¶ ¶ With reference to the "Giant Todea" fern sometime back transmitted by the Government Botanist to the St. Petersburgh H...
Thomas Wilson to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1884-03-14.
14th Mch '84 ¶ Memo No. 887 ¶ ¶ I beg to point out to the Govt Botanist that his memo of the 4th instant, respecting the giant todea fern presented to the St Petersburgh Botanic Gardens gives the cos...
Joseph Hooker to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1884-03-14.
March 14 /84 ¶ My dear Baron ¶ ¶ I was vastly amused at finding my features engraved in the Melbourne paper & I thank you very much for your kindly notice of me, all too flattering though it be. ¶ ¶...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Thomas Wilson, 1884-03-18.
Melbourne, ¶ 18/3/84. ¶ T. R. Wilson Esqre ¶ Undersecretary. ¶ Sir...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Memorandum, 1884-03-18.
Memorandum concerning the sending of a gigantic Todea-fern to the horticultural Exhibition of St Petersburg. ¶ ¶ When it was decided by the Imperial Horticultural Society of St Petersburg, that an in...
Thomas Wilson to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1884-04-02.
2 April 84 ¶ Memo No. 1098 ¶ ¶ Referring to previous correspondence respecting the presentation of the giant todea fern to the Botanical Gardens at St Petersburgh I beg to request the Government Bota...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Graham Berry, 1884-07-02.
Melbourne ¶ 2 July 1884. ¶ To the honorable Graham Berry, M.L.A., ¶ Chief Secretary. ¶ Sir...
Ferdinand von Mueller to [Gustav Reichenbach], 1884-07-07.
7/7/84 ¶ ¶ It does not require my assurance, highly esteemed Professor, that I was highly pleased when I heard of the acquisition of the special gold medal of His Excellency the Minister of Domains, ...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Johan Lange, 1885-02-14.
14/2/85. ¶ ¶ Allow me the question, dear Professor Lange, whether in Liebmann's publications on Mexican Oaks ¶ anything is mentioned as regards their timber-use, bark-value for tan &c. I would gladl...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Graham Berry, 1885-03-31.
Melbourne ¶ 31/3/85. ¶ The honorable Graham Berry, M.L.A., ¶ Chief Secretary ¶ Sir...
Ferdinand von Mueller to William Thiselton-Dyer, 1886-06-26.
26/6/86. ¶ Since writing to you, dear Mr Dyer, I received the tropical seeds, which you so kindly despatched to me, ¶ and for which I express my thankfulness, as all such sendings help to keep up my ...
Ferdinand von Mueller to William Thiselton-Dyer, 1886-08-04.
4/8/86 ¶ ¶ I have to thank you for an excellent suppy ¶ of fresh fruits of Chamaerops Ritchieana, dear Mr Dyer, which - as their vitality seems well retained - will doubtless add to the treasures of...
Ferdinand von Mueller to William Thiselton-Dyer, 1886-10-21.
21/10/86 ¶ ¶ Am extremely busy and not quite well, dear Mr Dyer, but do not like leaving your last letter unanswered. As it is intended to base on the Exhibition an Institute, ¶ to commemorate her M...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Daniel Morris, 1886-11-03.
3/11/86 ¶ ¶ In the multitudinous and varied engagements here, dear Mr Morris, I am often left in incertainty, whether I wrote or answered a letter or stopped short at the intention. If therefore I di...
Ferdinand von Mueller to William Thiselton-Dyer, 1886-12-25.
Christmasday ¶ 1886. ¶ Though this letter can only reach you so long after the chronologic anniversary, dear Mr Dyer, yet I must not let this festive time pass without bidding you all at Kew a happy n...
Bayley Balfour to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1888-01-10.
Fairacres, ¶ Oxford, ¶ 10th January 1888 ¶ My dear Baron Mueller, ¶ ¶ Your extremely kind letter has reached me here ¶ & found me in the midst of an unexpected excitement. It may seem strange that o...
Ferdinand von Mueller to William Thiselton-Dyer, 1888-05-01.
1/5/88. ¶ ¶ It would appear, dear Mr Dyer, that some expressions in your and my letters about Todea were misinterpreted by us mutually; let me therefore say, that I felt downcast at the announcement ...
Ferdinand von Mueller to William Thiselton-Dyer, 1889-07-24.
24/7/89 ¶ ¶ Am glad, dear Mr Dyer, that the Gymnschoenus experiment looks hopeful. ¶ Will send in a few months a root of Restio tetraphyllus packed in moist moss. I believe, that it will keep alive ...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Veit Wittrock, 1892-04-17.
Easter 1892. ¶ ¶ Late in life it is of importance to me, highly esteemed Professor, ¶ that my literary works are ¶ complete ¶ in the largest scientific institutes of the earth, before I depart fro...
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 Veit Wittrock, 1893-01-14.
Melbourne 14/1/93. ¶ ¶ After I offered my best thanks by last week's post, ¶ highly esteemed Professor, for the extraordinary distinction from the great venerable Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, ...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Johan Lange, 1893-01-24.
24/1/93 ¶ ¶ Since a long time, dear Prof. Lange, I intended to write to you; but in the busy departmental life in a young colony it is difficult, to do all, that could be wished. I have however born ...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Adolf Engler, 1893-01-31.
Melbourne, 31/1/93. ¶ ¶ In acknowledgement of your letter of 22/12/92, ¶ highly esteemed Professor, I express my thanks to you for the notification of a new contribution of dried plants to the colle...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Veit Wittrock, 1893-04-14.
14/4/93. ¶ ¶ The giant ¶ Todea ¶ , highly esteemed Professor, ¶ was ¶ shipped from here last week by the Peninsula & Orient steamer and should be in London towards the end of May, so that it can a...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Johan Lange, 1893-04-17.
17/4/93. ¶ ¶ The Giant-Todea, dear Prof. Lange, went last week by the Peninsular and Oriental Steamer, so that it should arrive in London towards the End of May, and can be in Copenhagen about the be...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Johan Lange, 1893-09-05.
Your collaborator Willkomm, 'the curls probably also shine so silver-white, whitened by the fullness of the years': I remember very well in the 40s of the century, how he discovered the ¶ Biarum ¶ . ...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Anton Kerner, 1894-07-29.
29/7/94. ¶ ¶ It is a great pleasure for me to learn, highly esteemed Counsellor, ¶ that the large ¶ Todea ¶ arrived in living condition at your place through the care of Navy staff physician Dr Ku...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Léon Dejardin, 1895-08-03.
3/8/95 ¶ ¶ The last french mail, dear Consul Lejourdan, ¶ brought me a generous communication from the Institut de France, and I have to fill some forms sent to me. ¶ Would you be with your usual o...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Irwin Lynch, 1895-08-17.
M ¶ elbourne ¶ , ¶ August 17th, 1895 ¶ . ¶ ¶ It is with deep sadness that I learn of the venerable Professor Charles C. Babington passing away from us, the Nestor of the Linnean Society for many year...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Frederick Coville, 1895-09-26.
26/9/95 ¶ ¶ As by your last extensive sending of beautifully dried and large rare plants through the Smithsonian Institute, dear Mr Coville, you have placed me under much obligations, I would ask, wh...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Veit Wittrock, 1895-10-25.
25/10/95 ¶ ¶ I have sent you some freshwater algae, highly esteemed Professor, since you work specially on such plants. If you can make use of them, more shall follow. Perhaps even diatoms have colle...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Henry Ridley, 1896-04-21.
21/4/96. ¶ ¶ Yesterday, dear Mr Ridley, arrived the large case with dried pressed plants, which you kindly forwarded. They arrived in a fairly good condition as a whole, though some had suffered from...