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Ferdinand von Mueller

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Ferdinand von Mueller to Annie Walker, 1896-03-12.
Dictated ¶ MS written by G. Luehmann and signed by M. ¶ Melbourne 12-3-96. ¶ ¶ This Evening dear Miss Walker I received Your kind letter ¶ Letter not found. ¶ ¶ so full of friendly sentiments, but n...
Ferdinand von Mueller to an unknown correspondent, 1896-03-12.
Melbourne 12/3/96. ¶ ¶ As your professional position honored Sir, necessitates some attention of your's also to the native vegetation, I would beg of you to aid me locally by your gathering specimens...
William Fitzgerald to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1896-03-13.
Yule Island ¶ British New Guinea ¶ March 13th 1896. ¶ ¶ We left Cooktown ¶ on February 23th and reached Port Moresby ¶ on the 5th ist. ¶ Sir W. MacGregor was away West. Whilst in Port-Moresby I he...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Henri de Saussure, 1896-03-17.
17/3/96 ¶ ¶ With pleasure I am sending you, dear Mr Saussure, some Australian postage stamps and others shall follow very soon. You will receive news by the next weekly post about the "Wire Worm". ¶ ...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Jacob Agardh, 1896-03-17.
17/3/96 ¶ ¶ In two small parcels you will receive, esteemed Professor, faded and therefore almost worthless plants this time, but the Abrolhos Islands near Champion Bay ¶ seem to be the ¶ northerly...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Maria Henley, 1896-03-17.
17/3/96 ¶ ¶ Am coming again begging, dear Miss Henley, but do not know where else to go for some cuttings of the Mesembrianthemum edule, as a demand has arisen for it, and my small supply is quite ex...
Charles Topp to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1896-03-19.
Melbourne 19 March [18]96 ¶ editorial addition. ¶ Sir, ¶ ¶ I have the honor to inform you that His Excellency the Governor in Council has been pleased to order that your services ¶ ¶ as Government B...
Ferdinand von Mueller to John Clayton, 1896-03-20.
South-Yarra, 26/3/96 ¶ J. Claydon ¶ i.e. Clayton. ¶ ¶ Esqre &c ¶ Town-Clerk of Melbourne. ¶ Sir, ¶ ¶ It affords me much pleasure to send to the Right Worshipful the Mayor of Melbourne herewith seeds...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Alphonse Milne-Edwards, 1896-03-21.
21/3/96 ¶ ¶ Again, my dear Prof. Milne-Edwards, I shall send to you by the "Armand Behic" under the kind care of sub Capt. Castellan a consignment for the Musée, and this ought to arrive about one we...
James Butler to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1896-03-22.
Sir, ¶ ¶ I thank you on behalf of the Hamilton Borough Council for the valuable suggestions contained in your letter as to the best way to eradicate the star thistle and Bathurst burr in this neighbo...
Horace Lawson to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1896-03-23.
23 Mch [189]6 ¶ Baron F. von Mueller, K.C.M.G. &c ¶ Government Botanist ¶ Melbourne ¶ Sir...
Eugene Hilgard to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1896-03-26.
The reason why the other saltbushes have not been mentioned more prominently is simply that they have not showed up to great advantage on the Alkali soil (of all kinds and grades) on our Tulara ¶ Tula...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Charles Topp, 1896-03-27.
South-Yarra, ¶ Melbourne. ¶ 27/3/96. ¶ Ch. Topp Esqr M.A., LLB. FLS., ¶ Under Secretary. ¶ Honored Sir...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Horace Lawson, 1896-03-27.
27/3/96. ¶ The Town Clerk of Warnambool. ¶ Honored Sir ¶ ¶ I owe your Council and yourself my best thanks for sending a package of seeds of Marram-Grass, also for the very acceptable addition made by...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Casimir de Candolle, 1896-03-31.
Melbourne, 31/3/96. ¶ ¶ This day, dear Prof de Candolle, I received the large volume on Bromeliaceae, which you so generously forwarded to me. ¶ It is a superb volume of a splendid series! Mr Mez ma...
Ferdinand von Mueller to the Leader, 1896-04-??.
[ ¶ Cocksfoot Grass ¶ — Amateur, Beaconsfleld. ¶ Vic. ¶ — No. 1 is a variety of the Cocksfoot grass (Dactylis Glomerata). This hardy and powerful grass is one of the best in the world for pastoral p...
Ferdinand von Mueller to William Brown, 1896-04-??.
[Professor Brown has received a number of letters from various prominent gentlemen, congratulating him upon his appointment, and expressing their opinion of his special fitness for the position. Among...
Ferdinand von Mueller to the Weekly Times, 1896-04-??.
The grass, of which I just received a sprig from you, is the Panicum Crus Galli, known as the Barnyard Grass, indigenous to Southern Asia, and seemingly wild also in South Europe. It has found its way...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Alexander Macdonald, 1896-04-01.
1/4/96. ¶ ¶ This ¶ afternoon ¶ , dear Mr Macdonald, I received the postcard, regarding the Meeting to be held by the Subcommittee concerning the spoken of Easter Excursion. I have searched everywher...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Maria Henley, 1896-04-02.
2/4/96 ¶ ¶ Let me thank you, dear Miss Henley, for the ample supply of the Mesembrianthemum edule, ¶ which now in autumn I will endeavour to start for naturalisation in such regions of the interior,...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Alexander Supan, 1896-04-03.
Private ¶ 3/4/96. ¶ ¶ I am pleased, esteemed Professor, that you [have received] the notes and the sketch about the region near Lake Barlee. ¶ I would gladly supply other such contributions, but eve...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Alexander Macdonald, 1896-04-04.
4/4/96 ¶ ¶ In a clear writing herewith, ¶ Enclosure not found. ¶ ¶ dear Mr Macdonald, I give my views on the two propositions. Please keep it, though the remarks are ¶ ¶ only intended for you ¶ ¶ ...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Isaac Tyson, 1896-04-04.
4/4/96. ¶ ¶ Among the plants, just received from you, dear Mr Tyson, is N. 1 an Acacia in abnormal (monstrous) flowering state, — the plant found by your brother ¶ on the stony Hills. I am glad, tha...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1896-04-05.
Easter 1896 ¶ Your genial and extensive letter ¶ has been most cheering to me, dear Sir Joseph, and it most gratifying, that you – altho’ now nearly an Octogenarian – you ¶ are in so youthful a vigo...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Charles H. French, 1896-04-09.
9/4/96. ¶ ¶ It is very obliging of you, dear Mr French, to send me the specimens of Prasophyllum despectans. As it is a comparatively rare species I shall be thankful for all the specimens from your ...
Thomas Henry to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1896-04-09.
April 9th 1896. ¶ Dear Sir, ¶ ¶ By direction of the Council I have the honor to inform you that your wishes respecting the collection of some marram grass seed will be carried out as soon as possible...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Michael Dowden, 1896-04-12.
12/4/96 ¶ ¶ Thinking over our pleasant conversation, honored Sir, it occurs to me, that it would also be recommendable to obtain from time to time some copies of the two parts of the "Key to the Syst...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Walter Rothschild, 1896-04-12.
Melbourne 12/4/96 ¶ ¶ Hereby I have the honour, noble Baron Rothschild, to submit to you an extract of a letter I received in the last few days from New Guinea from my collector Mr W. Fitzgerald, ¶ ...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Herbert Williamson, 1896-04-15.
Dictated ¶ Melbourne 15-4-96 ¶ (At a very late hour) ¶ ¶ In answer to Your letter just received ¶ dear Mr. Williamson let me say that probably Galium geminifolium and Asperula geminifolia are states...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Annie Walker, 1896-04-17.
Dictated ¶ Melbourne 17-4-96. ¶ ¶ This letter is dictated to you dear Miss Walker as I do not feel well and as this is at a very late hour of a very buissy day, but I do not wish to keep you longer w...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1896-04-17.
17/4/96 ¶ When I wrote to you by last mail ¶ hurried as usual, dear Sir Joseph, I alluded to the ¶ few phytographers ¶ (not phytologists in the general sense) who remained "superstites" ¶ from the...
Ferdinand von Mueller to [Robert Rogers], 1896-04-18.
¶ [Marram grass for Indian Govt. owing to drought have only been enabled to get small quantity (herewith) Hope to have fair supply next Autumn. ¶ ]...
Eugene Hilgard to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1896-04-20.
April 20th, 1896. ¶ Baron F. von Mueller, ¶ Melbourne, Australia. ¶ My dear Sir: ¶ ¶ Yours of March 7th, ¶ including seeds of Atriplex Semibaccatum, came duly, and I was at first a little startled t...
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...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Ada Armytage, 1896-04-27.
S. Yarra, ¶ 27/4/96 ¶ ¶ When I receive, dear Miss Armytage, kind letters from Ladies, which is not very often, I feel always much cheered, and thus I was also particularly the case when I received ¶...
Edmund Armstrong to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1896-04-27.
April 27th [189]6. ¶ Sir, ¶ ¶ I have the honour to inform you that I shall have much pleasure in laying before the Trustees at a meeting on Thursday next your letter ¶ suggesting that copies of your...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Jacob Agardh, 1896-04-28.
28/4/96 ¶ ¶ Yesterday evening, noble friend, the small parcel of algae arrived which you so kindly sent, and since the weekly post for Europe, Asia and Africa goes off at midday today, I can immediat...
Ferdinand von Mueller to William Thiselton-Dyer, 1896-04-30.
30/4/96. ¶ ¶ According to the wish, expressed in your last letter, dear Dr Dyer, I have obtained from Mess Blogg some samples of their Australian-Acacia-Scent, and they present it to the Kew Museum i...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Alexander Peacock, 1896-05-??.
¶ [Govt botanist reports absence of Mr Minchin from duty. Fwds medl ¶ certificate received.]...
Ferdinand von Mueller to the Leader, 1896-05-??.
[ ¶ Plant Specimen ¶ .— Anxious, Wahring. ¶ Vic. ¶ — Your specimen is a Solanum, or belongs to a closely ¶ allied ¶ genus, but is very different from the Deadly ¶ ¶ Nightshade. "Anxious" should ha...
Ferdinand von Mueller to the Weekly Times, 1896-05-??.
It is called Panicum crus galli. It is a native of Southern Europe and Asia, and is valuable as a fodder plant. A full description is given in his work on select plants. ¶ The current edition was B95....
Ferdinand von Mueller to 'Hodden Gray', 1896-05-??.
[I have submitted the sample to the critical judgment of Baron von Mueller, who is at all times most willing to give practical and courteous advice. He pronounces it to be Poa annua. It is an annual, ...
Ferdinand von Mueller to the Leader, 1896-05-??.
[Prairie Grass, &c.— Subscriber, Beaconsfield. ¶ Vic. ¶ Specimen No. 1 is the British Ribherd, ¶ Journalist's error for Ribherb? ¶ sometimes, but incorrectly, called Ribgrass. This grass is a perenn...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Alexander Peacock, 1896-05-??.
¶ [Minchin Mr Recmds he be examined by Govt Medl Offr ¶ ]...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Thomas Henry, 1896-05-??.
[From Baron Von Mueller, thanking Mr. Henry for fresh seeds of marram grass forwarded, and asking to be supplied with various specimens of seaweed found on the coast, and offering to send seeds of uti...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Alexander Peacock, 1896-05-??.
¶ [Minchin Mr To pay fine at rate of £1 per month]...
Ferdinand von Mueller to the Leader, 1896-05-??.
[ ¶ Specimen of Grass ¶ .— Subscriber, Kerang. ¶ Vic. ¶ — ¶ Your ¶ specimen is the Panicum sanguinale, a native ¶ of Europe. ¶ "It is," writes Baron von Mueller, "a ¶ good grass, ¶ and more than...
Horace Lawson to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1896-05-01.
1st May [189]6 ¶ Baron Ferd von Mueller ¶ Melbourne ¶ Dear Sir ¶ ¶ I have the honor to convey to you the sincere thanks of this Council for the valuable donation of the large parcel of "Economic Seed...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Philip Doran, 1896-05-11.
¶ [Early yesterday morning Miss Bessie Hal ¶ ford, second ¶ daughter of the late William ¶ Halford, J.P., was united at "Avo ¶ n ¶ sl ¶ ei ¶ gh" ¶ Castlemaine, Vic. ¶ ¶ in marriage to ¶ Mr Henry Joh...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Otto Tepper, 1896-05-12.
12/5/96. ¶ ¶ You have always been so obliging, dear Mr Tepper, that I also ask you today for something. Can you provide information for me whether Mr Calvert, who is just now having an expedition org...

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