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Ferdinand von Mueller

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Ferdinand von Mueller to John MacPherson, 1870-04-08.
¶ [Director recommends that the Inspr of Forests ¶ William Ferguson. ¶ ¶ may be placed under the Lands Dept with a view of commencing an inspection of the principal forests of this Colony ¶ See note...
George Bentham to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1870-04-15.
25, WILTON PLACE. S.W. ¶ April 15 /70 ¶ My dear Sir ¶ ¶ I write a few lines in great haste being overwhelmed with press of matter at this time, to say that I have sent by this mail 8 sheets of the 5t...
Joseph Henry to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1870-04-20.
Smithsonian Institution, ¶ Washington, April 20. 1870 ¶ Dear Sir; ¶ ¶ Your letter of Jan'y 31st ¶ Letter not found. ¶ ¶ was duly received and I hasten to thank you on behalf of this Institution, for...
George Rayner to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1870-04-20.
River Styx ¶ April 20th ¶ ¶ My Dear Sir I returned from the mountains yesterday and having business in Town I started to day and arrived just in time to send your small parcel by the Southern Cross ...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1870-04-22.
22/4/70 ¶ ¶ I hoped, dear Dr Hooker, to have sent by the clipper sailing this week, to you a supplemental case of Monochlamydeae for Mr Bentham’s use, but as I have ¶ not yet ¶ over come the diffic...
Ferdinand von Mueller to George Bentham, 1870-04-22.
22/4/70. ¶ ¶ As far as sparehours occasionally permit, dear Mr Bentham, I work quietly away on Monocotyledoneae, preparatory for your work, but these sparehours are and have been much diminished in n...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Paul Rohrbach, 1870-04-22.
Melbourne Botanic Garden, ¶ 22 April 1870. ¶ ¶ I was pleasantly surprised, esteemed Doctor, by your kind letter, ¶ which arrived here a few days ago through the agency of our friend Dr Sonder. As I ...
Ferdinand von Mueller to James McCulloch, 1870-04-23.
Melbourne botanic Garden, ¶ 23 Apr. 1870. ¶ Sir ¶ ¶ In compliance with your request I have the honor of transmitting to you herewith a revised schedule of estimates, in which the expenditure with the...
Ferdinand von Mueller to James McCulloch, 1870-04-23.
Melbourne botan ¶ ¶ Garden ¶ 23/4/70 ¶ Sir ¶ ¶ I have the honor to point out, that the reductions, ¶ ¶ proposed to be made in the wages fund of the botanic Garden during 1870, necessitate the disco...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Jacob Agardh, 1870-04-23.
Melbourne Botanic Garden, ¶ 23 April 1870. ¶ ¶ I have the pleasant duty, noble Sir, to express my best thanks to you for the transmission of the ¶ Acta ¶ of the Lund University, also for the excell...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Ferdinand von Krauss, 1870-04-23.
Melbourne Botanic Garden, ¶ 23 April 1870. ¶ ¶ It has been been my intention for some time, noble Sir and friend, to reply to your last kind letter. ¶ However, many new obligations in my large depar...
Ferdinand von Mueller to James McCulloch, 1870-04-23.
Melbourne botan Garden, ¶ 23 Apr. 70. ¶ Sir ¶ ¶ I have the honor to draw your attention to the circumstance, that in the revised estimate now submitted for your favorable consideration, no provision ...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Edward Symonds, 1870-04-24.
Melbourne botan. Garden ¶ 24/4/70. ¶ Sir ¶ ¶ I have the honor to report, that the caseful of Museum plants, shipped by the Agent General for my establishment pr "Bolton Abbey" has safely arrived yes...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Julius Haast, 1870-04-30.
30 April 1870. ¶ ¶ It was a pleasure, dear Dr Haast, to meet your friend Dr Fischer. ¶ Carl Frank Fischer. ¶ ¶ Unfortunately with the continuing troubles in the Department my time did not permit me ...
Ferdinand von Mueller to William Barrett, 1870-05-??.
¶ [Dr F Mueller. — asking that the Council would name some person in Melbourne to take delivery of plants for the Gardens.]...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Adolphe Cordier, 1870-05-??.
¶ Acacia Decurrens reaches 40 or 50 feet in a few years, even in a sterile soil, but in humid and fertile valleys can in time reach 150 feet; its bark is rich in tannic acid; its flowers are odiferou...
Ferdinand von Mueller to James McCulloch, 1870-05-02.
Melbourne bot. Garden ¶ 2/5/70. ¶ Sir ¶ I have the honor to solicit, that you will be pleased to bring under the consideration of the honorable the President of the Board of Land and Works, that the m...
Ferdinand von Mueller to James McCulloch, 1870-05-03.
¶ [Director forwds return showing saving of expenditure in 1870 as compared with 1869] ¶ ¶ The original estimates for 1870 (VictoriaParliamentary paperB 2, p. 12, ordered to be printed 8 March 1870)...
Ferdinand von Mueller to William Odgers, 1870-05-04.
Melbourne Botanic Garden ¶ 4th May 1870 ¶ Sir ¶ ¶ ¶ I have the honor to request that you will be pleased to issue Authorities for this Department for expenditure under the heads of ¶ ¶ ¶ Purchase ...
Ferdinand von Mueller to the Leader, 1870-05-07.
¶ Sir, — I have the honour of transmitting to you, with permission of the hon. the Chief Secretary, ¶ an abridged translation of Professor Izenga's ¶ essay on sumach culture, the full translation b...
William Smith to James McCulloch, 1870-05-09.
William Smith was engaged at the Botanic Gardens in 1857 immediately after Dr Muellers appointment as director transferred to take charge of carry out the formation of the Zoological Gardens remained ...
Ferdinand von Mueller to James McCulloch, 1870-05-10.
Melbourne botan. Garden ¶ 10/5/70 ¶ Sir ¶ ¶ I have the honor to submit an application of the discharged engine driver of the botanic Garden, who claims the sum of four pounds five shillings for tools...
Ferdinand von Mueller to James McCulloch, 1870-05-10.
¶ [Director solicits permission to communicate to Australasian & Leader short notes on contents of 5th vol Australian plants ¶ ]...
David Coller to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1870-05-11.
11 May 1870 ¶ Dr Von Mueller Direct Bot gardens ¶ Sir ¶ ¶ Having been informed that William Smith is trying to com back to the Melb. Bot. Garden again I beg to draw your attention to the understandin...
Ferdinand von Mueller to William Odgers, 1870-05-20.
Melbourne bot. Garden ¶ 20/5/70. ¶ Dear Mr. Odgers, ¶ ¶ You will probably have noticed in the Argus of yesterday and today two letters in reference to the cutting of a Red Gum tree, ¶ 'Destruction of...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1870-05-20.
Melbourne bot Garden ¶ 20/5/70 ¶ ¶ Herewith, dear Dr Hooker, I beg to send you a curious Ranunculus, just discovered by Mr Th. Kirk at Waikati. ¶ In its dwarf state it resembles forms of Limosella a...
Ferdinand von Mueller to James McCulloch, 1870-05-23.
Melbourne bot. Garden ¶ 23/5/70 ¶ Sir ¶ ¶ I have the honor to report to you, that this day fourty four (44) of the boys of the industrial Schools have worked in the botanic Garden. They were distribu...
Ferdinand von Mueller to James McCulloch, 1870-05-25.
Melbourne bot. Garden ¶ 25/5/70 ¶ Sir ¶ ¶ In accordance with your instructions ¶ W. Odgers to M, 21 May 1870(in this edition as 70-05-21a). ¶ ¶ I forwarded the memorandum respecting an article in th...
Ferdinand von Mueller to James McCulloch, 1870-05-28.
Melbourne bot. Garden ¶ 28/5/70. ¶ Sir ¶ ¶ I have the honor to recommend, that overseer Wilson of the Industrial Schools, now stationed at the Depot at Prince's Bridge may be allowed to march the boy...
Ferdinand von Mueller to James McCulloch, 1870-05-31.
Melbourne bot. Garden, ¶ 31/5/70 ¶ Sir ¶ ¶ In reply to a letter from the Undersecretary under yesterdays date ¶ W. Odgers to M, 30 May 1870. ¶ ¶ I have the honor to inform you, that any plants suppl...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Théodore Caruel, 1870-06-??.
¶ [From a letter received from Dr Mueller, the highly reputed director of the Melbourne botanical garden in Australia, we learn that he has worked around the Chenopodiaceae to ascertain the need to b...
Ferdinand von Mueller to William Odgers, 1870-06-01.
Memorandum ¶ ¶ in reference to the reply ¶ ¶ of Mr. W. Ferguson, ¶ dated 23 May 1870. ¶ WilliamFerguson wrote to Odgers on 23 May 1870: 'Referring to your memo. of the 21st inst as to the authorship...
Ferdinand von Mueller to James McCulloch, 1870-06-03.
Melbourne bot Garden ¶ 3/6/70 ¶ Sir ¶ ¶ I have the honor to inform you, that this day Mr David Syme brought to me a copy of the Daily telegraph of this day (annexed the copy), ¶ Dailytelegraph(Melbou...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Daniel Bunce, 1870-06-05.
Melbourne bot Garden ¶ 5/6/70 ¶ ¶ Excuse me, dear Mr Bunce, that I did not send the leaves and flowers of the ¶ Passiflora racemosa ¶ before this. I was not well and much harrassed in my department...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Edmund FitzGibbon, 1870-06-07.
Melbourne botan Garden ¶ 7/6/70. ¶ Sir ¶ ¶ I have the honor to solicit, that the City Council will authorize me to purchase 454 (four hundred fifty four) Elms, about 3 years old, for being planted ¶ ...
George Bentham to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1870-06-09.
London ¶ 25, WILTON PLACE. S.W. ¶ June 9 /70 ¶ My dear Sir ¶ ¶ Enclosed is a bill of lading for the last box sent of which I presume you have received the duplicate. Another box is being packed and p...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Richard Kippist, 1870-06-10.
Bot. gard 10/6/70 ¶ ¶ Among the multitude of papers, dear Mr. Kippist, which always even in reference to inofficial matters accumulate around me, I mislaid the forms, under which you require me to pr...
Ferdinand von Mueller to James McCulloch, 1870-06-13.
Melbourne bot. Garden ¶ 13 June 1870. ¶ Sir ¶ ¶ I have the honor of submitting to you, as promised in my letter of the 11 June, a brief set of regulations, which in my opinion would properly and fair...
Ferdinand von Mueller to James McCulloch, 1870-06-13.
Melbourne bot. Garden ¶ 13/6/70 ¶ Sir ¶ ¶ When I had the honor of an interview with you this day, I omitted to ask you permission, ¶ ¶ to supply still to those institutions, which have already their...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1870-06-14.
14/6/70 ¶ ¶ By this months mail, dear Dr Hooker, I beg to send you some beautiful photograms, taken near my office dwelling by Mr Montefiore, a Melbourne Merchant, and near Relative of Sir Moses Mont...
Ferdinand von Mueller to George Bentham, 1870-06-17.
17/6/70 ¶ ¶ The complications in my Department, dear Mr Bentham, have as yet not been solved. This and the heavy duties of the planting season have so fully occcupied my time, that I could only hasti...
Ferdinand von Mueller to James McCulloch, 1870-06-22.
Melbourne botanic Garden, ¶ 22/6/70. ¶ Sir ¶ ¶ In reference to the proposed alterations of the rules, under which hitherto the supply of plants, cuttings and seeds was obtained from the botanic Garde...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1870-06-23.
In a Calico-case under Dr H Rickards surveillance pr ship "Crusader" sent to Dr Hooker 23/6/70. ¶ ¶ Boronia megastigma Nees 2 ¶ (exquisitely fragrant & one of the most meritorious pot-plants to be in...
Ferdinand von Mueller to William Odgers, 1870-06-23.
Melbourne botanic Garden ¶ 23/6/70 ¶ Sir ¶ ¶ In reply to your letter N.1502 ¶ I have the honor to inform you, that the Canadian Tree seeds were on my special solicitations and in answer to a direct ...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Albert Le Souef, 1870-06-24.
Melbourne Botanic Garden ¶ 24/6/70 ¶ Sir ¶ ¶ I have the honor to inform you that the Trustees of the Royal Park have felt much pleasure in appointing you their agent, and that accordingly for the tim...
Ferdinand von Mueller to George Story, 1870-06-30.
Melbourne bot Garden ¶ 30/6/70 ¶ ¶ I ought to have written to you, dear Dr Story, long before this, to acknowledge the safe arrival of the sedges, grasses, waterplants &c which you so kindly secured ...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Marcus Clarke, 1870-07-06.
Melbourne bot. Garden ¶ 6/7/70. ¶ Sir ¶ ¶ In reply to your letter, received this day, ¶ inviting me to deliver one of the inaugural discourses, by which a system of industrial teaching is to be init...
George Bentham to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1870-07-08.
25, WILTON PLACE. S.W ¶ . ¶ July 8 /70 ¶ My dear Sir ¶ ¶ I send off by this post eight more sheets of the Flora Australiensis and have just corrected the first proof of the last sheet of the volume a...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1870-07-10.
Bot. garden 10/7/70. ¶ ¶ By this mail, dear Dr Hooker, you will receive a set of those lithograms, which I had prepared since the 2-volume was issued, ¶ but which Mr Bentham has not seen, though I a...
Ferdinand von Mueller to George Bentham, 1870-07-10.
10/7/70. ¶ ¶ I have again written my views on that portion of the work, dear Mr Bentham, which you forwarded to me by the mail just arrived. I am pleased with the whole arrangement and the details, a...

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