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Ferdinand von Mueller

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  • 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-??.
        [ ¶ 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...
            • 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 Clara Ryan, 1896-02-02.
                      2/2/96. ¶ ¶ Bringing out, dear Madam, the 9th (again enlarged) edition of my work on "Select Plants for industrial culture", ¶ — a heavy extra-work in an always labourious branch of the public servi...
                      • Ferdinand von Mueller to Clara Ryan, 1896-02-02.
                        2/2/96. ¶ ¶ As the cool season will soon come on again, dear Madam, I would like very much, that you with the aid of neighbouring befriended Ladies get for me collected all sorts of the small spring-...
                        • Ferdinand von Mueller to Jacob Agardh, 1896-02-04.
                          4/2/96. ¶ ¶ Again I have, respected Sir, sent you a handsome number of algae freshly collected by Miss Hussey, and to which collection Dr Verco (not Vercoe) also has contributed on a voyage with the ...
                          • William Fitzgerald to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1896-02-07.
                            ¶ I did not collect the specimens of the Banana, which grows on the Mambare-River. ¶ Papua. See also N. Miklouho-Maclay to M, 4 September 1885. ¶ Mr. Butterworth, on the request of Sir William Macgr...
                            • Ferdinand von Mueller to [William Thiselton-Dyer], 1896-02-09.
                              [9.2.96] ¶ ¶ At a recent german festival here, ¶ I in proposing the health of His Excellency the Governor stood up in dignified terms for the greatest of political greatnesses that of Albion ¶ spea...
                              • Robert Etheridge Jr to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1896-02-12.
                                12. ii. 96 ¶ My dear Baron, ¶ ¶ Standing arrangements exist with the various Custom-Houses within the Colonies for the admittance of ¶ ¶ our ¶ ¶ spirit-drums when sent for collecting ¶ ¶ purposes....
                                • Ferdinand von Mueller to the Royal Geographical Society, 1896-02-12.
                                  CERTIFICATE OF CANDIDATE FOR ELECTION ¶ Being desirous of admission into the ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY, We, the undersigned, recommend him as likely to become a useful and valuable Fellow. ¶ Dated th...
                                  • Ferdinand von Mueller to Alexander Macdonald, 1896-02-12.
                                    12/2/96. ¶ ¶ This evening, dear Mr Macdonald, I received the enclosed letter from our friend Major Boyd. ¶ When President Thomson's ¶ communication arrives, I will draft a reply, which you can adop...
                                    • Ferdinand von Mueller to Eugene Hilgard, 1896-02-14.
                                      14/2/96. ¶ ¶ As I am under the impression, highly esteemed Professor, that you do not yet have the West African ¶ wonder grass ¶ ( ¶ Panicum spectabile ¶ ) over there, which I have introduced into ...
                                      • Ferdinand von Mueller to Edward Ramsay, 1896-02-14.
                                        14/2/96 ¶ ¶ Some weeks ago, dear Dr Ramsay, I learnt to my great joy, from Mr Frogatt, ¶ that your health had greatly improved, so that you could feel renewed delight in science work as in days gone...
                                        • Ferdinand von Mueller to Franz Stephani, 1896-02-15.
                                          15/2/96. ¶ ¶ Permit me, highly esteemed Mr Stephani, to direct a request to you, which imposes on me here. It is this, to have a supplementary list of those liverworts (on most of them there is no na...
                                          • Ferdinand von Mueller to Walter Campbell, 1896-02-16.
                                            16/2/96. ¶ ¶ Without wishing to be intrusive, dear Mr. Campbell, I like to mention that I am reminded of my promise to send to Europe fruits (not very many) of ¶ Atkinsonia ligustrina ¶ for anatomi...
                                            • Ferdinand von Mueller to Veit Wittrock, 1896-02-17.
                                              17/2/96 ¶ Honored Sir ¶ ¶ Should you have from the last gatherings in your garden, seeds of any pasture grasses and fodder herbs, exclusive of such as are already of world-wide culture, then I should...
                                              • Ferdinand von Mueller to Jacob Agardh, 1896-02-17.
                                                17/2/96. ¶ ¶ Today, highly esteemed Professor, I have sent a ¶ small box ¶ to you through the ¶ parcel post ¶ registered, which includes a small bottle ¶ containing marine organisms from Encount...
                                                • the family of Baron Cristoforo Negri to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1896-02-18.
                                                  ¶ Carlotta Gatti widow Negri, engineer Sir Luigi Negri, Antonio Moscioni Negri, Member of Parliament, Guiseppina and Giulio Cesare Moscioni Negri joined in deep sorrow have the painful duty of announ...
                                                  • Ferdinand von Mueller to Édouard Bornet, 1896-02-18.
                                                    18/2/96 ¶ ¶ If I rightly remember, dear Dr Bornet, I wrote to you, that a small glass vessel, containing partly algs and partly animal organisms of the lowest form, would be sent in a case, which I h...
                                                    • Ferdinand von Mueller to Charles Scoborio, 1896-02-22.
                                                      22/2/96. ¶ ¶ Would it be possible, honored Sir, to obtain seeds from your Marram-plantation this autumn, as I wish to send some to a distant country. ¶ ¶ I can send you some shrub- and tree-seeds in...
                                                      • Ferdinand von Mueller to William Thiselton-Dyer, 1896-02-24.
                                                        24/2/96 ¶ ¶ By this weeks mail, dear Dr Dyer, I am sending you about 18 species of ferns but in poor fragmentary specimens. They came from a Collector in British New Guinea, whose travels I largely s...
                                                        • Ferdinand von Mueller to Franz Stephani, 1896-02-26.
                                                          26/2/96 ¶ ¶ Enclosed, highly esteemed Mr Stephani, some of your favourite little plants, this time from New Guinea, from which I am hoping to receive even more of such plants during 1896. ¶ ¶ I am j...
                                                          • Horace Lawson to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1896-02-26.
                                                            26th Feby [189]6 ¶ Baron F. Von Mueller K.C.M.G. &c ¶ Government Botanist ¶ St Kilda Road, Melbourne ¶ Sir...
                                                            • Ferdinand von Mueller to the Leader, 1896-03-??.
                                                              ¶ [Peanut Plant.— ¶ Flower Girl, Mount Gambier. ¶ SA. ¶ — You send only one leaf and that without any explanatory remarks. Correspondents when sending plant specimens for identification should alway...
                                                              • Ferdinand von Mueller to the Linnean Society of London, 1896-03-??.
                                                                We the Undersigned beg to recommend ¶ ¶ the Rev. H. B Barber ¶ of Beaufort, ¶ Ballarat, Victoria, ¶ for the Fellowship of the Linnean Society, for which honor he has fair claims through his local ...
                                                                • Ferdinand von Mueller to the Leader, 1896-03-??.
                                                                  ¶ SETARIA GRASS. — Novice, Murrungowar. ¶ — The grass sent is the Setaria viridio, ¶ similar to the more common and yellowish S. glauca, and like it, indigenous to many parts of Europe and Asia. It...
                                                                  • Ferdinand von Mueller to James Butler, 1896-03-??.
                                                                    This involved ¶ Involves? ¶ incessant operations in your winterless region, where the growth of these plants remains uninterrupted through the year. Under ordinary circumstances the two plants allude...
                                                                    • Ferdinand von Mueller to the Naturwissenschaftlicher Verein für Schleswig-Holstein, 1896-03-??.
                                                                      I avail myself of this opportunity to send a specimen of the rarest of all Australian animals, the ¶ Notoryctes typhlops ¶ , which is restricted to a small area of Central Australia and knows how to ...
                                                                      • Eugene Hilgard to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1896-03-??.
                                                                        The Keris County ¶ Journalist's error for Kern County, the county of California adjacent to Tulare County, where the University experimental station was situated? See note 2 to E. Hilgard to M, 26 Mar...
                                                                        • Ferdinand von Mueller to the Leader, 1896-03-??.
                                                                          [ ¶ Specimen of Grass ¶ .— A. H., Coimadai. ¶ Vic, north of Bacchus Marsh. ¶ — Your ¶ ¶ [sp]ecimen, ¶ Editorial addition, text obscured by binding; all [ ] in the following text have the same meanin...
                                                                          • Ferdinand von Mueller to Alexander Peacock, 1896-03-??.
                                                                            ¶ [Minchin Mr absent from duty]...
                                                                            • Joseph Hooker to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1896-03-02.
                                                                              March 2 /96 ¶ The Camp. ¶ Sunningdale ¶ Hooker's home in his retirement. ¶ . ¶ My dear Baron ¶ ¶ I have not yet thanked you for your [acceptable] letter of the New Year, ¶ with its kind felicitation...
                                                                              • Ferdinand von Mueller to Heinrich Best, 1896-03-03.
                                                                                3/3/96 ¶ ¶ Since I feel very ¶ anxious ¶ , dear Mr Best, it will be a real benefit to me, if you will tell me, be it even only through a few written words, what has been the result of your kind visi...
                                                                                • Ferdinand von Mueller to Ellis Rowan, 1896-03-03.
                                                                                  3/3/96. ¶ ¶ Your genial letter, ¶ dear Madam, has reached me, the one of the 17 Jan, and I feel very much indebted for the generous sentiments, which you evince towards me, and for the spirited exer...
                                                                                  • Ferdinand von Mueller to William Thiselton-Dyer, 1896-03-03.
                                                                                    3/[3]/95 ¶ 2altered to3. Date stampedRoyal Gardens Kew 4. APR. 96.M’s year is mistaken. As well as the evidence of the annotations and date stamp, the reference to the small lot of ferns is consistent...
                                                                                    • Ferdinand von Mueller to William Setchell, 1896-03-05.
                                                                                      Dictated ¶ Melbourne 5-3-96 ¶ ¶ Let me acknowledge dear Professor Setchell the receipt of your kind letter dated 3th February, ¶ and let me assure you that I shall always be glad to hear from you. I...
                                                                                      • James Butler to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1896-03-05.
                                                                                        Sir, ¶ ¶ I have been directed by the Hamilton Borough Council to request you to kindly advise as to which you consider the best means of eradicating the star thistle and Bathurst burr which are becom...
                                                                                        • Ferdinand von Mueller to Annie Walker, 1896-03-06.
                                                                                          3/6/95 ¶ Dear Miss Walker ¶ ¶ This letter is written by dictation as I do not feel quite well and as it is at a late hour of a laborious day. Your remarks on the eucupealiyptus ¶ scented interests m...
                                                                                          • Ferdinand von Mueller to William Setchell, 1896-03-06.
                                                                                            ¶ Hope, additional sending of Decades of Salsoloc. ¶ arrived. Like to hear more about the Alkali Lands ¶ ¶ Is it likely, that many Algs remain to be discovered on the West-Coast of N. America. ¶ ¶...
                                                                                            • Ferdinand von Mueller to Alexander Macdonald, 1896-03-06.
                                                                                              6/3/96. ¶ ¶ Let me say in reply to your kind letter, just received, dear Mr McDonald, that in my opinion any Easter-tour, if our Council-Colleagues ¶ and their friends can afford the expenditure, sh...
                                                                                              • Ferdinand von Mueller to Eugene Hilgard, 1896-03-07.
                                                                                                7/3/96. ¶ ¶ Enclosed I am sending you some seeds (in the fruits) of ¶ Atriplex semibaccatum ¶ , esteemed Professor, and I request you to tell me whether it is the genuine ¶ A. semibaccatum ¶ , that...
                                                                                                • Ferdinand von Mueller to Heinrich Best, 1896-03-09.
                                                                                                  Private ¶ 9/3/96 ¶ ¶ It would be very gratifying to me, dear Mr Best, if you could again devote some of your valuable time to me, since I am certainly not quite composed. I met the lady, the elderly...
                                                                                                  • Ferdinand von Mueller to Alexander Macdonald, 1896-03-10.
                                                                                                    10/3/96. ¶ ¶ I find, dear Mr M'Donald, that his Excellency, ¶ whom I did not wish to trouble while Parliament was sitting, is now on a tour to the West of the Colony; so it will be some days, before...
                                                                                                    • Ignatz Urban to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1896-03-11.
                                                                                                      Royal Botanical Museum ¶ Berlin, 11 March 1896 ¶ Honoured Baron, ¶ ¶ Allow me to send you a copy of what I said at the time about ¶ Boronia floribunda ¶ Sieb. and include a fragment of the original...
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