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Ferdinand von Mueller

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Ferdinand von Mueller to [Robert Rogers], 1895-12-10.
10/12/95. ¶ ¶ Allow me to ask, honored Sir, whether any information has been received from the Office of the Agent General concerning the books destined for Katharinenburg, ¶ so kindly granted by th...
Ferdinand von Mueller to the Editor of the Australische Zeitung, 1895-12-11.
Melbourne, 11 December 1895. ¶ Perhaps, honoured Sir, you still have no more accurate news about the unsuccessful German expedition that traversed New Guinea for the first time and in fact at the larg...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Maurice Holtze, 1895-12-14.
14/12/95. ¶ ¶ Your telegram, dear Mr Holtze, was truly joyful news. Nothing was purchased in two places in Sydney, but I shall turn to a third. ¶ Because I sacrifice ⅔ of my salary in order to conti...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Heinrich Best, 1895-12-15.
15/12/95 ¶ ¶ Mr Boyce, Superintendent of Albert Park ¶ was ill, so a ¶ Pinus ¶ could only be selected yesterday, ¶ that he will show to Mr Mitscherlich and other gentlemen of the Turnverein today...
William MacGregor to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1895-12-15.
I had a specimen brought on board the ¶ Merrie England ¶ , ¶ Steam yacht in the service of the Governor of British New Guinea. ¶ where I invited Mr. W. Fitzgerald to study it. He undertook to send y...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Jacob Agardh, 1895-12-17.
17/12/95. ¶ ¶ By the next weekly post, honoured Sir, you will again receive algae from Lacèpede Bay, ¶ recently collected there by Dr Engelhardt, ¶ whose algal searchings were interrupted by a long...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Walter Baldwin Spencer, 1895-12-17.
17/12/95. ¶ Private ¶ ¶ My attention has been drawn to your announcement, dear Professor Spencer, in the Argus ¶ Letter to the editor,Argus, 17 December 1895, p. 5, announcing that thereport on the H...
Robert Etheridge Jr to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1895-12-18.
18th December, 1895 ¶ Dear Sir, ¶ ¶ I have received your letter of 14th inst. ¶ and thank you for the information you have given. I know that many of the Plants I desire are found not very far from ...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Walter Baldwin Spencer, 1895-12-19.
19/12/95 ¶ ¶ Was not aware, dear Prof Spencer, that the botanic Report had finally been transmitted to you as result of the Horn-Exped. ¶ If I had not been obliged to devote so much time in 1895 for...
Ferdinand von Mueller to [...] Stone, 1895-12-24.
24/12/95 ¶ ¶ The name of the yellow-flowered herb, sent by you, dear Mr Stone, is Euphrasia scabra. The Euphrasias have some medicinal value and are not wholesome for pasturage, but are not really co...
Henry Crummer to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1895-12-27.
Queensland Chambers ¶ 18 Bridge Street ¶ Sydney. ¶ 27th December 95 ¶ To Baron Sir Ferdinand Von Mueller KCMG, PhD, FRGS, &c ¶ Melbourne Victoria...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Jacob Agardh, 1895-12-31.
31/12/95. ¶ ¶ Yesterday, highly esteemed Professor, a letter came to me from Tönsberg ¶ from Captain Kristensen, ¶ ¶ ¶ who commanded the Norwegian steamer ¶ Antarctic ¶ during the voyage to the...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Giovanni De Toni, 1896-??-??.
¶ [The illustrious botanist Ferdinand Mueller, a resident of Melbourne, who has been sending me Australian materials for several years with the assignment that I have to draw up a "Systematic Census ...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Edward Morris, 1896-??-??.
¶ Professor Robert K. Greville of Edinburgh was born on the 14th Dec., 1794, he was therefore only just fourteen years old when the genus ¶ Grevillea ¶ was established....
Ferdinand von Mueller to Herbert Williamson, 1896-??-??.
¶ […] ¶ help to discriminate the plant systematically. What is the precise locality? ¶ 444. Also in this difficult genus the fruit, when containing well ripened seeds, give some of the best characte...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Adolf Engler, 1896-01-??.
¶ [...] ¶ ¶ I take this additional opportunity to express my regret that Prof R. Wettstein ¶ has put into effect the unfortunate idea of Baillon to suppress the genus ¶ Eremophila ¶ and thereby b...
Ferdinand von Mueller to The Australasian, 1896-01-??.
[ ¶ With regard to the export of Australian honey to England, it is much to be regretted that the returns are unsatisfactory, for Victorian honey is really good. ¶ The Australasian 11 January 1896, p....
William MacDonald to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1896-01-??.
¶ On the 3rd inst. ¶ Themonthis confirmed bya news itemdescribing the incidentinEvening news(Sydney),6January 1896, p.3. ¶ a bo ¶ at manned by Captain Clark ¶ Error for Grant? TheEvening newsand othe...
Ferdinand von Mueller to William Webb, 1896-01-??.
This time, dear Mr. Webb, I would merely ask whether it would be impossible for you to induce the newspapers to ask settlers on or near salt bush country to send me specimens with ripe seeds (fruit) o...
Ferdinand von Mueller to the Leader, 1896-01-??.
¶ [ ¶ S ¶ pecimen of Grass ¶ .— Selector, Narbethong. ¶ Vic. ¶ — The tall climbing grass with entangled branches received is the Ehrhorta jancea. ¶ Jpurnalist's error for Ehrharta juncea? ¶ It is in...
Ferdinand von Mueller to the Leader, 1896-01-??.
¶ [Centranthus Macrosiphon ¶ .— E. A. Moodie, Coleraine. ¶ Vic. ¶ — The judges were wrong in disqualifying your collection of annuals for containing Centranthus macrosiphon. We referred the matter to...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Charles Neylon, 1896-01-??.
Letter not found.The textgivenhere is fromPort Fairy gazette, 17 January 1896, p. 3.The receipt of the letter was recorded inthe minutes of theBorough Councilmeeting of 15January 1896under'Corresponde...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1896-01-01.
New Year 1896. ¶ Your letter, just received, dear Sir Joseph, ¶ has been immensely cheering to me, as it recognises so fully the sacrifices, made by me for maintaining the dignity and efficiency of m...
Robert Etheridge Jr to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1896-01-03.
3. I. 96 ¶ My dear Baron, ¶ ¶ Your letter re ¶ ¶ Claudea ¶ ¶ was duly received. ¶ M to R. EtheridgeJr,14 December 1895(in this edition as 95-12-14a). ¶ ¶ You ¶ ¶ may ¶ ¶ rest assured that should...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Jacob Agardh, 1896-01-06.
6/1/96 ¶ ¶ This time, honoured friend, a consignment of prepared algae (in two parcels) just arrived here from Miss Hussey is being sent to you again, honoured friend. Number 444 is quite new to me b...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Otto Tepper, 1896-01-07.
7/1/96 ¶ ¶ Best New Year greetings to you, dear Mr Tepper. Another small present has been sent to you. ¶ ¶ Would you do me the favour of asking in the German Consulate there whether one or two years...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Clara Ryan, 1896-01-07.
7/1/96 ¶ ¶ It was very kind of you, dear Madam, to send me the new lot of seaweeds and also the dried specimens of the land-plants. I find among these plants some few to be new for W.A. and some new ...
Clements Markham to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1896-01-08.
¶ I wrote to Mr. Goschen, the first Lord of the Admiralty on the subject of an Antarctic expedition, but, I am sorry to say, that his reply was very disheartening. Whilst fully recognising the scient...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Alexander Macdonald, 1896-01-09.
9/1/96. ¶ ¶ Have been as overwhelmed with work, dear Mr Macdonald, as I had the additional duties of Hon. Examiner toward[s] the end of the year at several Gov. establishments, that now only most of ...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Eugene Hilgard, 1896-01-11.
11/1/96. ¶ ¶ Your just arrived letter, ¶ highly esteemed Professor, has given me quite special pleasure, since it is again a triumph for the cultivation of saltbush initiated by me. ¶ ¶ The new ach...
Ferdinand von Mueller to William Thiselton-Dyer, 1896-01-11.
11/1/96 ¶ ¶ This day, dear Dr Dyer, I posted to you a small box, containing a Flacon with essence of Boronia megastigma a plant of most powerful and peculiar flower fragrance. ¶ I fancy, that you li...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Franz Stephani, 1896-01-13.
13/1/96 ¶ ¶ I am again sending you, highly esteemed friend, some Jungermanniaceae by today's post, this time collected by Mr. C. Maplestone in a not very high range north of Port Phillip, "the Plenty...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Otto Tepper, 1896-01-14.
14/1/96 ¶ ¶ Best thanks, dear Mr Tepper, for the kind inquiry on account of the ¶ album ¶ of photographs of Sir Thos. Elder's expedition. Also express my best thanks to Professor Dr Watson for his ...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Alexander Crawford, 1896-01-15.
15/1/96. ¶ ¶ Am much beholden to you, dear Mr Crawford, for sending so thoughtfully the seeds of Albizzia pruinosa. I will send them in horticultural interchanges all over the world. ¶ ¶ This tree i...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Maria Henley, 1896-01-15.
15/1/96 ¶ ¶ Best thanks, dear Miss Henley, for the fruits of Mesembrianthemum edule. ¶ See M to M. Henley, 9 January 1896(in this edition as 96-01-09a). ¶ ¶ You are evidently highly successful with ...
Alphonse Milne-Edwards to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1896-01-17.
Paris, 17 January 1896 ¶ Dear Sir, ¶ ¶ I hasten to inform you of the safe arrival at Paris of the two boxes of collections that you have so kindly sent to the Museum through the obliging intercession...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Baldwin Spencer, 1896-01-17.
17/1/96 ¶ ¶ Herewith, dear Professor Spencer, I send you the description of the new scrophularineous genus, Elacholoma, which Prof Tate discovered, when you [w]ere out in Central Australia. ¶ Horn Sc...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Isaac Tyson, 1896-01-21.
21/1/96 ¶ Honored Sir ¶ ¶ I should feel much indebted if you would mention to me those ¶ indigenous ¶ grasses and pasture herbs particularly the perennial species on which horses cattle and sheep a...
the Naturwissenschaftlicher Verein für Schleswig-Holstein to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1896-01-21.
¶ The Natural Science Union of Schleswig-Holstein has in it meeting on 20 January 1896 elected Baron Ferdinand von Mueller, K.C.M.G., M.&Ph.D, F.R.S., Government Botanist for Victoria in Melbourne as...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Henry Crummer, 1896-01-22.
¶ [In his answer he referred to his previous efforts towards unravelling the mystery surrounding the fate of Leichhardt and his party. There was, he agreed, a possibility of Leichhardt and his compan...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Jacob Agardh, 1896-01-23.
23/1/96 ¶ ¶ Today, noble Sir, your important list of algae from Miss Hussey and also from Mr O'Halloran has arrived and been forwarded immediately to these keen collectors. ¶ We are all indebted to ...
Alphonse Milne-Edwards to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1896-01-25.
Paris 25 January 1896 ¶ Sir, ¶ ¶ I have the honour of sending you the thanks of the Administration of the Museum for the donation you have so kindly made to it of your book on “Select extra tropical ...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Ignatz Urban, 1896-01-28.
28/1/96. ¶ ¶ Permit me, esteemed Professor, to ask you for information about ¶ Boronia floribunda ¶ Sieber, which you re-established as a species several years ago. ¶ I have very many plants of Si...
Ferdinand von Mueller to the Leader, 1896-02-??.
¶ [ ¶ Cockshin Grass ¶ .— Old Subscriber, Neerim. ¶ Vic. ¶ — The grass received is, Baron von Mueller informs ¶ ¶ us, the Panicum crux galli, the Cockshin grass, in ¶ ¶ its smooth state. It is, w...
Ferdinand von Mueller to the Leader, 1896-02-??.
[ ¶ Specimen of Grass ¶ .— A. B., Boolara. ¶ Vic. ¶ — It is the Ehrharta stipoides, the "native weeping grass." It is," says Baron Von Mueller, "indigenously restricted to Continental extratropic Aust...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Alexander Peacock, 1896-02-??.
¶ [Minchin Mr Absent from duty on 18th inst till 2.30 pm]...
Ferdinand von Mueller to the Leader, 1896-02-??.
[ ¶ Sample of Grass ¶ .— Grazier, Darnum. ¶ Vic. ¶ — The specimen forwarded is identified by the Government ¶ ¶ botanist, Baron Von Mueller, as the Cockshin grass ¶ ( ¶ Panitum ¶ Journalist's error...
Ferdinand von Mueller to the Leader, 1896-02-??.
[ ¶ Cookshin Grass ¶ .— Subscriber, Melbourne.— The grass sent is the Cookshin grass, Pamium Rus Galli. ¶ Journalist's error for Panicum crus-gall? ¶ It has no similarity to what is here called Buffa...
Ferdinand von Mueller to the Leader, 1896-02-??.
¶ [Bladder-campion Plant ¶ .—R.J.F., Gordons ¶ Gordon, Vic? ¶ — ¶ ¶ Your specimen is a perennial herb, popularly called ¶ ¶ in England the "Bladder-campion." It is, says Baron von Mueller, a harm...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Alexander Magarey, 1896-02-??.
¶ On various occasions during the last ten years I have urged that the great north-western desert of Australia, yet a blank on the map, should be explored partly for geographical reasons and partly o...

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