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Ferdinand von Mueller

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  • Ferdinand von Mueller to August Petermann, 1866-02-24.
    24 February 1866. ¶ ¶ It ¶ ¶ has ¶ ¶ pleased me immeasurably, esteemed Professor, that you use your continued mighty advocacy for the movement in search of Leichhardt. ¶ The Ladies' Leichhardt Sear...
    • Clement Hodgkinson to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1866-02-28.
      Office of Lands & Survey ¶ Melbourne, 28th February 1866. ¶ Sir, ¶ ¶ Referring to recent correspondence relative to your application for the reservation of land for experimental purposes, ¶ M hadsugg...
      • Ferdinand von Mueller to Press release, 1866-03-??.
        ¶ Dr. Mueller intends to enumerate as one item of interest in an essay he is preparing on the vegetation of Australia, all the trees hitherto known. This list will be so tabulated that at a glance it...
        • Joseph Hooker to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1866-03-01.
          Kew March 1/66 ¶ My dear Mueller ¶ ¶ I suppose that the Cyathea you mean is the C. Lindsayana of Synops. Fil. ¶ "Mt Lindsay W. Hill." ¶ I cannot find the specimens any where but doubtless they will...
          • Charles Renard to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1866-03-02.
            Much revered Sir, ¶ ¶ While thanking you for the seeds you sent to us, I have at the same time the honour to inform you that at yesterday's meeting the Imperial Society of Naturalists of Moscow has, ...
            • the Imperial Society of Naturalists of Moscow to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1866-03-02.
              Moscow, 18 February/2 March 1866 ¶ Sir, ¶ ¶ The Imperial Society of Naturalists of Moscow has received the works that you kindly sent to them, entitled: ¶ ¶ Mueller, Ferdinand Fragmenta phytographia...
              • Ferdinand von Mueller to Edmund FitzGibbon, 1866-03-02.
                2 March 1866 ¶ ¶ [Mueller, Dr re planting of willows on Yarra Bank]...
                • Thomas Purves to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1866-03-02.
                  2nd March 1866 ¶ Sir, ¶ ¶ At a meeting of the Victorian Horticultural Improvement Society held on Monday evening 26th ult. ¶ I was instructed to enquire if you will be kind enough to furnish the Soc...
                  • Ferdinand von Mueller to Thomas Purves, 1866-03-05.
                    Botanic Gardens ¶ 5th March 1866 ¶ Sir, ¶ ¶ Requested by Dr Mueller I have the honor of stating in reply to your favor of 2nd inst ¶ that he regrets that he has no funds available, so as to enable h...
                    • Ferdinand von Mueller to James McCulloch, 1866-03-10.
                      Melbourne botanic Garden, ¶ 10. March 1866. ¶ Sir ¶ ¶ In accordance with your request I have the honor of submitting my written views in reference to the abolishment of the Assistantship at the botan...
                      • Ferdinand von Mueller to James McCulloch, 1866-03-14.
                        Melbourne bot. Garden ¶ 14/3/66 ¶ Sir ¶ ¶ In compliance with the request conveyed in your minute of yesterday, ¶ I have the honor of submitting once more a detailed statement in reference to the exp...
                        • 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 Johan Areschoug, 1866-03-24.
                            24 March 1866. ¶ Esteemed Professor, ¶ ¶ I am sending you a ¶ large ¶ case with natural history objects by the ship ¶ Wellesley ¶ , which is to sail today. ¶ The freight has been paid as far as L...
                            • Ferdinand von Mueller to the Gardeners' Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette, 1866-03-26.
                              ¶ Melbourne ¶ , ¶ March 26: Ficus vesca ¶ .—This noble evergreen Fig-tree, vernacularly known as the cluster Fig, and described in the ¶ Journal de Botanique Néerlandaise ¶ for 1861, ¶ merits gen...
                              • Ferdinand von Mueller to Julius Haast, 1866-03-30.
                                Good Friday 1866. ¶ ¶ I deserve to be scolded, dear friend, that I have not answered your last kind letters long ago. ¶ You must think me a very selfish person, because I usually only write, when I ...
                                • Ferdinand von Mueller to J. Miller, 1866-04-??.
                                  ¶ [A letter from Mr. J. Miller was read, asking if the samples of the Ballarat phosphoric potash manure sent to be tested by Dr ¶ Mueller ¶ had been reported upon. It was proposed by Mr Ramsay, and...
                                  • Ferdinand von Mueller to the Editor of the Australasian, 1866-04-??.
                                    ¶ The leguminous plant alluded to by Mr. Allan Hughan is phytographically known as ¶ Glycyrrhiza psoraloides ¶ , and the only species of liquorice as yet found in Australia. It is, as pointed out by...
                                    • Handasyde, McMillan & Co. to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1866-04-17.
                                      Seedwarehouse 60 Elizabeth St. ¶ Melbourne, 17th Ap/66 ¶ Dr Mueller, ¶ Government Botanist &c &c ¶ Melbourne Botanic Gardens...
                                      • Ferdinand von Mueller to Charles Darling, 1866-04-20.
                                        Melbourne botan. Garden, ¶ 20. April 1866. ¶ Sir Charles, ¶ ¶ In accordance with your Excellencys request I beg to place before you a succinct statement on the present position of the enterprise, wh...
                                        • the Botaniske Forening i Kjøbenhavn to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1866-04-30.
                                          Copenhagen 30 April 1866 ¶ ¶ We hereby have the honour of informing you that on 30th April this year, you were appointed Corresponding Member of the Botanical Society of Copenhagen. ¶ Addressed to ¶ ...
                                          • Ferdinand von Mueller to the Beechworth Borough Council, 1866-05-??.
                                            ¶ [From Dr Mueller, in reference to the trees recommending that the Council wait until next year for them—thanks to be forwarded for his communication. ¶ ]...
                                            • Robert Officer to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1866-05-??.
                                              ¶ [The chairman informed the meeting that he had applied to Dr ¶ Mueller ¶ , the Curator of the Botanical Gardens at Melbourne, for a supply of young trees to plant in the proposed cemetery, and par...
                                              • Ferdinand von Mueller to the Australasian, 1866-05-??.
                                                ¶ In the total absence of all despatches from the leader of the expedition sent by the ladies for ascertaining Leichardt’s ¶ i.e. Leichhardt's. ¶ ¶ fate, I must ask, through your esteemed journal, t...
                                                • Ferdinand von Mueller to the Creswick Borough Council, 1866-05-??.
                                                  ¶ [From Dr ¶ Mueller ¶ , relative to the application by the council for plants and young trees] ¶ ....
                                                  • the Adelaide Municipal Corporation to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1866-05-??.
                                                    ¶ [The Plane or Platinus ¶ Tree. — Your Committee recommend that the Town Clerk write to Dr. ¶ Mueller ¶ , Melbourne, asking him if he could oblige the Council by forwarding, at our expense, a furt...
                                                    • Ferdinand von Mueller to James Crawford, 1866-05-06.
                                                      Melbourne bot. Garden ¶ 6./5/66 ¶ Honored and dear Sir. ¶ ¶ Accept my cordial thanks for your kindness in sending me the fruit specimens of Knightia excelsa, which enable me to draw now the clear lim...
                                                      • Ferdinand von Mueller to John Knight, 1866-05-07.
                                                        7/5/66 ¶ ¶ I have much pleasure, dear Mr Knight, in introducing to you the Gentleman, whom Count de Castelnau recommends as Subsecretary to the French Exhibition. ¶ ¶ Since it is likely, that you wi...
                                                        • Ferdinand von Mueller to James McCulloch, 1866-05-07.
                                                          ¶ [For authority to expend £380 on Earth works] ¶ The letter was referred to the Public Works Department on 11 May 1866 'for opinion of Mr Wardell'. It was returned to the Chief Secretary's Departmen...
                                                          • Ferdinand von Mueller to Edmund FitzGibbon, 1866-05-11.
                                                            11/5/66 ¶ Dear Mr Fitzgibbon ¶ ¶ Have you be so kind to prepare a short notification to the Inspector General of public works or myself respecting the approaches to the garden bridge? ¶ Bear kindly ...
                                                            • Ferdinand von Mueller to Berthold Seemann, 1866-05-17.
                                                              ¶ This new coniferous tree was recently discovered by Walter Hill, Esq., the Director of the Botanic Garden of Brisbane, at the Darlington Range of Queensland, where it attained a height of fully 60 ...
                                                              • Ferdinand von Mueller to George Carey, 1866-05-20.
                                                                ¶ Melbourne botanic Garden ¶ 20/5/66. ¶ Sir ¶ ¶ I have the honor to express to your Excellency my gratitude for causing the despatches from the right honorable the Secretary of State for the Colonie...
                                                                • Ferdinand von Mueller to Theodor Kotschy, 1866-05-24.
                                                                  Melbourne Botanic Garden, ¶ 24 May 1866. ¶ ¶ I was very pleased, dear Dr Kotschy, to receive a few sheets written by a man whose name is so well known and esteemed in science. ¶ I have thought of yo...
                                                                  • Ferdinand von Mueller to Asa Gray, 1866-05-24.
                                                                    24/5/66 ¶ ¶ From the enclosed print, dear Prof Gray, it is very doubtful, whether the consignment pr Patrick Henry ever reached you. ¶ If not, as I fear, I have still more cause to claim your indulg...
                                                                    • 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...
                                                                      • Ferdinand von Mueller to Alexander Braun, 1866-05-26.
                                                                        Melbourne in the botanical garden ¶ 26 May 1866 ¶ ¶ The last mail, honoured Professor and Rector, brought me your kind letter of 2 March. ¶ Letter not found. ¶ ¶ I was very sad to hear of your indis...
                                                                        • Ferdinand von Mueller to George Grey, 1866-05-26.
                                                                          Queensbirthday ¶ 26/5/66 ¶ My dear Sir George. ¶ ¶ During his stay in Melbourne I was informed by Baron Cederström, one of the Chamberlains of her Majesty the Queen of Sweden, that the King was very ...
                                                                          • Ferdinand von Mueller to August Petermann, 1866-05-28.
                                                                            28 May 1866. ¶ ¶ I am stretched on a sickbed, my noble valiant friend, and can thus only thank you for your incomparably beautiful map ¶ and tell you that I am looking forward with hope to encouragi...
                                                                            • Ferdinand von Mueller to Friedrich Wöhler, 1866-05-28.
                                                                              Melbourne Botanic Garden, ¶ 28 May 1866. ¶ ¶ Just before the departure of the overland mail to Europe, noble Sir, I was pleasantly surprised by your kind letter of 15 February. ¶ ¶ As a luminary of ...
                                                                              • Ferdinand von Mueller to George Thwaites, 1866-05-28.
                                                                                [28 May 1866] ¶ ¶ I am ill in and out of the bed. I trust it will not be the last letter you may get from me. [...]...
                                                                                • Ferdinand von Mueller to Filippo Parlatore, 1866-05-28.
                                                                                  Melbourne bot. Garden, ¶ 28/5/66 ¶ ¶ With this mail again, dear Prof. Parlatore, I have sent to your Government seeds of some useful trees. I will endeavour to keep up the supply monthly. Should you ...
                                                                                  • Ferdinand von Mueller to Julius Haast, 1866-05-31.
                                                                                    31 May 1866. ¶ ¶ It is very sad, dearest friend, that your poor wife has been so unwell. I was also ill again and thus can sympathise with you all the more. Should you move once more into a permanent...
                                                                                    • Ferdinand von Mueller to the Canterbury Acclimatisation Society, 1866-06-??.
                                                                                      ¶ [A letter was read from Dr. ¶ Mueller ¶ , ¶ announcing the receipt of £5, for the purchase of ¶ birds ¶ , ¶ and acknowledging the receipt of some seeds. He recommended the employment of black s...
                                                                                      • Ferdinand von Mueller to George Bentham, 1866-06-??.
                                                                                        Note for Mr Bentham ¶ ¶ I send a new genus of Rubiaceae from Cape York. It is nearer Morinda than Mussaenda, though it has quite the habit & petaloid large floral leaves of the latter. I have called ...
                                                                                        • Ferdinand von Mueller to Robert Officer, 1866-06-??.
                                                                                          ¶ [Dr. Officer, the chairman, intimated that he had received a letter from Dr. Mueller, the Director of the Melbourne Botanical Gardens upon the subject, informing him that such oils were about to be...
                                                                                          • Ferdinand von Mueller to the Editor of the Herald, 1866-06-01.
                                                                                            Sir, — In a very recent editorial article of your valued paper you have deviated from your usual course of justice. ¶ Herald, 1 June 1866, p. 2, beganWhat definite purpose is a so-called Botanical Gar...
                                                                                            • William Sloman to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1866-06-07.
                                                                                              ¶ In Mr. M'Intyre I had every confidence, and with him I would have gone anywhere. He was a splendid bushman, and was an adept at water-hunting, an accomplishment the value of which to an explorer ca...
                                                                                              • John Sharkey to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1866-06-11.
                                                                                                COPY ¶ Lara Flinders River, ¶ Queensland, 11 June 1863 ¶ Sir, ¶ ¶ I am sorry to have to report to you the painful tidings of the death of Mr Duncan M'Intyre, at his brother's station Gilliot ¶ Creek...
                                                                                                • Ferdinand von Mueller to Julius Haast, 1866-06-25.
                                                                                                  25 June 1866. ¶ ¶ I am most deeply sorry, dear friend, to hear of your wife's ailment. It does seem that your winter climate does not agree with the lady. Please give her my kindest regards. I shall ...
                                                                                                  • 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, 1866-06-26.
                                                                                                      26/6/66. ¶ Dear Dr Hooker. ¶ ¶ This day I unpacked the case, you kindly sent by the Yorkshire. The dry plants came safely back & for the books I feel much indebted. ¶ I will send those, which the li...
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