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Ferdinand von Mueller to Asa Gray, 1854-06-06.
Botanic Garden Melbourne, ¶ 6. June 1854. ¶ My dear Sir, ¶ ¶ Dr. Graham called on me some while ago to receive the specific names to some specimens of plants, which he gathered about the Ballarat gol...
Wilhelm Sonder to Friedrich Miquel, 1854-06-07.
Hamburg 7 June 1854 ¶ Most esteemed Sir! ¶ ¶ After I was prevented for a long time through business from gathering together the Mueller plants, I have finally forwarded them with the steamship ¶ de ...
Wilhelm Sonder to Diederich von Schlechtendal, 1854-06-15.
¶ Hamburg,15 ¶ ¶ June ¶ ¶ 1854 ¶ Most ¶ ¶ esteemed ¶ ¶ Sir, ¶ ¶ I am sending you herewith the manuscript of the Mueller plants worked on by Professor Meisner for the ¶ ¶ Linnaea ¶ . I have had ...
Ferdinand von Mueller to the Philosophical Society of Victoria, 1854-06-24.
¶ Your sub-committee, appointed at the meeting held on the 17th of June 1854, at the Museum of Natural History, for the purpose of preparing the prospectus, and rules and regulations of the Society, ...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Norman Campbell, 1854-07-14.
70 Collin street East ¶ 14. July 1854. ¶ Sir ¶ ¶ I do myself the honor of adressing you, to solicit his Excellencys, the Governor's, sanction for a journey to the entrance of Port Phillip and its env...
Ferdinand von Mueller to William Hooker, 1854-07-14.
Botanical Gardens Melbourne, ¶ 14. July 1854. ¶ Sir William. ¶ ¶ Your kind communication, dated 9. Apr 1854, reached me yesterday, and it would be difficult to say, with how much pride and gratificat...
Ferdinand von Mueller to William Hooker, 1854-07-26.
Melbourne bot Gardens, 26 July 54 ¶ Sir William, ¶ ¶ I take an early opportunity to write to you again by the overland mail, to repeat my warmest thanks for your kind letters as well as for the unmer...
Ferdinand von Mueller to John Foster, 1854-08-01.
Melbourne, 70. Collin street East, ¶ 1. August 1854. ¶ Sir ¶ ¶ I do myself the honor of adressing you, to solicit humbly the sanction of his Excellency the Governor for a voyage to Sealers cove at Wi...
Ferdinand von Mueller to William Hooker, 1854-08-03.
Melbourne, 3. August 1854. ¶ Sir William. ¶ ¶ Desirous of not neglecting any opportunity of adressing you, I have the pleasure of transmitting to you this few lines by the celebrated poet William How...
Ferdinand von Mueller to August Fürnrohr, 1854-09-??.
Suggestions for the advancement and completion of descriptive botany. ¶ ¶ At the time, when I am writing these lines in the continent most distant from Europe, the naturalists of all civilised countr...
Ferdinand von Mueller to William Hooker, 1854-09-22.
Bot. Gardens Melbourne. 22 September 1854 ¶ Sir William ¶ ¶ As the "Madras" is leaving our port again tomorrow I take an early opportunity of replying by the overland mail to your kind letters, conve...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Wilhelm Sonder, 1854-09-23.
[In consequence of a letter received yesterday from Dr Mueller, I am sending you today the treatment of the mosses last sent. Mueller wrote me that an Englishman would describe New Zealand and New Hol...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Wilhelm Sonder, 1854-10-??.
[Dr Mueller wrote to me at the end of October that he was about to embark on a new journey to the mountains. ¶ M departed on his new expedition on 1 November 1854; see M to J. Foster, 31 October 1854....
Ferdinand von Mueller to Richard Kippist, 1854-10-??.
¶ The Sciences are progressing here, in a manner that augurs well for the future. Two Societies have been established, ¶ in both of which I have the honor to sit on the Council, and the Philosophica...
Wilhelm Sonder to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1854-10-??.
¶ Mr Grönland was formerly my assistant for several years; has now been in Paris for 12 years and studies botany. When with Webb's death ¶ his engagement to draw plant analyses for him had to be giv...
Ferdinand von Mueller to John Foster, 1854-10-09.
Botanic Gardens, 9. October 1854. ¶ Sir ¶ ¶ In doeing myself the honor of forwarding to you my second general report, I beg to state, that with the utmost economy of time, exercised since the last si...
Ferdinand von Mueller to John Foster, 1854-10-22.
Botanic Gardens, Melbourne ¶ 22. October 1854. ¶ Sir ¶ ¶ I do myself the honor to acknowledge your communication from the 20 instant, ¶ and beg humbly to express my gratitude for his Excellency's li...
Ferdinand von Mueller to William Hooker, 1854-10-27.
Bot. Gardens, Melbourne, ¶ 27 October 1854. ¶ Sir William ¶ ¶ By the Great Brittain, leaving this harbour to morrow, I beg to forward to you a box with dried plants, being the remainder of those whic...
William Hooker to John Foster, 1854-11-02.
Royal Gardens ¶ Kew. ¶ Novr 2 1854 ¶ Sir ¶ ¶ I hope that my position in this country, as the head of our principal Botanical Establishment, may be held as an apology for my taking the liberty of addr...
William Hooker to Charles Hotham, 1854-11-02.
Royal Gardens ¶ Kew. Novr. 2. 1854. ¶ My dear Sir Charles ¶ ¶ I have to thank your Excellency for your kindness in writing to me just before you left England & in the midst of all the hurry & bustle ...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Wilhelm Sonder, 1854-12-??.
[Mueller recently wrote to me from the interior, saying that he had climbed the high Mount Wellington in November and found many beautiful things.]...
Ferdinand von Mueller to William Haines, 1854-12-16.
Omeo, 16th December, 1854. ¶ Sir ¶ , ¶ ¶ I do myself the honor of laying before you, for communication to His Excellency the Lieutenant Governor, an account of my journey as far as this locality. ¶ ...
Ferdinand von Mueller to J. Chester Jervis, 1855-??-??.
¶ [J. Chester Jervis, Esq., of the Grampians, Victoria, sent a dried specimen of a beautiful star-flowered low myrtle shrub indigenous to that region. [...] The specimen was brought over by Mr. R. Ba...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Wilhelm Sonder, 1855-??-??.
[ ¶ Dr Mueller has sent me the enclosed two printed items for you, ¶ Printed items not identified. ¶ ¶ which I send on to you herewith. The good friend would soon have died recently as a result of a ...
Ferdinand von Mueller to William Hooker, 1855-03-01.
Lake Wellington, Gipps land, ¶ March. 1. 1855. ¶ Sir William, ¶ ¶ Since I had the honor of adressing you (from Buchan 22 Jan. 55) when giving you a short account of the alpine vegetation of Mount Cos...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Friedrich Krichauff, 1855-03-09.
Melbourne, 9 March 1854. ¶ M incorrectly wrote 1854, instead of 1855.On 9 March 1854,M was travelling between the Snowy River and Avon, Vic. (see M to J. Foster, 10 March 1854). On 9 March 1855,hehad ...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Charles MacMahon, 1855-03-27.
Melbourne, 27. March 1855. ¶ Sir ¶ ¶ Not having been able to wait on you, I beg to adress you for the purpose of asking your permission of sending two horses belonging to the botanical department for...
Ferdinand von Mueller to William Hooker, 1855-04-05.
bot. gardens Melbourne ¶ 5. April 1855. ¶ Sir William ¶ ¶ Three letters ¶ of yours, which were received with much delight lay at present unanswered before me. The first of them came about a month ag...
Ferdinand von Mueller to William Hooker, 1855-04-26.
Bot. gardens, Melbourne, 26 April 55 ¶ Sir William ¶ ¶ Being disappointed in getting all my alpine collections together by this ¶ time, I have been unable making up such a collection by the "Red Jac...
Ferdinand von Mueller to the Royal Society of Van Diemen's Land, 1855-05-??.
¶ [Dr. Milligan also read a letter from Dr. Frederick Müeller, Government Botanist of Victoria, relating to the publication in the Society’s Journal of his descriptions of new plants, many of which, ...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Wilhelm Sonder, 1855-05-??.
[In two months a new consignment of plants from Mueller's last journey will arrive, perhaps there will also be seeds in it. The last letter is from the end of May this year, when Dr Mueller was comple...
Wilhelm Sonder to Eduard Fenzl, 1855-05-12.
Hamburg 12 May 1855 ¶ Most revered Friend! ¶ ¶ […] ¶ ¶ So I have to be content with the arranging and the placing here and there of the beautiful Mueller plants, and the Myoporineae are only now fin...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Augustus Gregory, 1855-05-13.
Melbourne, 70. Collin Street East. ¶ 13. May 1855 ¶ Sir, ¶ ¶ It was a delightful intelligence to me to learn, that my noble and learned friend, Prof. Harvey, deemed my humble acquirements sufficient ...
Henry Gregory to Augustus Gregory, 1855-05-16.
Brisbane 16 May 1855 ¶ ¶ [...] ¶ ¶ Captn Wickham ¶ tells me that Dr Muller is a gentleman I hope he is not another ¶ Van Summers ¶ they are most of them great humbugs but he may be something bett...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Ronald Gunn, 1855-05-20.
Melbourne, 70. Collin Street East ¶ 20. May 1855. ¶ My dear Sir ¶ ¶ It was a great pleasure to me to receive last night your kind letter, dated the 12th May. ¶ — I have to thank you most heartily fo...
George Francis to William Hooker, 1855-05-26.
Old Botanic Garden, ¶ Adelaide, ¶ South Australia ¶ May 26th, 1855. ¶ Sir,...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Augustus Gregory, 1855-05-26.
70. Collin Street East. ¶ Melbourne 26. May 55. ¶ Sir ¶ ¶ Since I had the honor of adressing you and Dr. Harvey with regard to my proposed joining your expedition ¶ and after receiving your letter, ...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Edward La Trobe Bateman, 1855-06-??.
[June 1855] ¶ My dear Mr Bateman. ¶ ¶ It will give me the greatest pleasure, to have the opportunity yet of meeting you; please, dear Sir, should the night not be to chilly for your going out, let me...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Edward La Trobe Bateman, 1855-06-??.
[June 1855] ¶ My dear Mr Bateman ¶ ¶ It is a source of regret to me to be deprived of the pleasure of seeing you on my humble place, ¶ as I am urged by business to get to town. I have to thank you f...
Ferdinand von Mueller to William Haines, 1855-06-10.
Melbourne, 70. Collin street East, ¶ 10. June 1855 ¶ Sir ¶ ¶ I have the honor to inform you, that I received from Mr Gregory, as head of the Exploring-party destined for Northern Australia, a communi...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Ronald Gunn, 1855-06-12.
Melbourne, 70. Collin Street East. ¶ 12. June 1855. ¶ My dear Sir ¶ ¶ I beg to transmit to you by the same vessel, which brought your obligingly forwarded books, the four first volumes and suppl I of...
John Moore to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1855-06-13.
13 June 1855. ¶ ¶ I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 30 May forwarding a Schedule of expenditure for your department for the current year, and requesting instructions. ...
John Moore to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1855-06-18.
18th June 1855 ¶ ¶ I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 10th instant ¶ intimating the receipt of a communication from the Head of the party about to undertake the Northe...
Ferdinand von Mueller to William Haines, 1855-06-25.
REPORT OF THE GOVERNMENT BOTANIST. ¶ Botanic Gardens, Melbourne, ¶ 25th June, 1855. ¶ Sir, ¶ ¶ I do myself the honor of transmitting for communication to His Excellency the Governor my Third General ...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Ronald Gunn, 1855-06-26.
Melbourne, 70. Collin Street East. ¶ 26. June 55 ¶ My dear Mr Gunn, ¶ ¶ I send with the "Black Swan" leaving to morrow, your books back again, and thank you very much for the kindness which you have ...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Ronald Gunn, 1855-06-27.
Melbourne, 70. Collin Street East ¶ 27. June 1855. ¶ My dear Sir ¶ ¶ I beg to enclose the receipt for having despatched to you "per Black Swan" this day the books in good order, which you had the kin...
Ferdinand von Mueller to William Hooker, 1855-06-28.
Bot. Gardens, Melbourne ¶ 28. June 1855. ¶ Sir William, ¶ ¶ I beg to enclose in this letter a bill of loading for a box with narrowly packed specimens, shipped to you this day per Francis Henty. I ho...
Ferdinand von Mueller to William Haines, 1855-07-??.
¶ [States that he has accepted the appt of Botanist to the North Australian expedition and requests that his leave of absence be extended until his return.]...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Augustus Gregory, 1855-07-09.
Sydney, 9. July 1855. ¶ Sir ¶ ¶ I do myself the honor to inform you, that I accept the appointment as Botanist for the North Australian Expedition, which his Excellency the Governor General has been ...
Augustus Gregory to Edward Thomson, 1855-07-11.
Sydney 11th July 1855. ¶ Sir ¶ ¶ Dr Mueller the Botanist attatched to the North Australian Expedition having arrived in Sydney, I am enabled to prepare a list of the stores specially required for the...

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