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Ferdinand von Mueller to Filippo Parlatore, 1866-12-28.
Melbourne Botanic Garden ¶ 28 December 1866 ¶ Dear Sir, ¶ ¶ Your friendly letters dated 25 September and 27 October ¶ have reached me and I thank you sincerely for them and also for "La Nazione" tha...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Frederick Standish, 1867-01-14.
Melbourne botan. Garden ¶ 14/1/67 ¶ Dear Capt. Standish. ¶ ¶ The old Police horse, which you most kindly granted to my ¶ ¶ department for use some years ago, is gradually wearing out, and as my depa...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Carl von Hügel, 1867-01-29.
Melbourne Botanic Garden, ¶ 29 January 1867. ¶ Excellency, ¶ ¶ A few days ago I was most pleasantly surprised to see Mrs Smillie back once more in this country, a surprise that was all the greater, a...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Frederick Barlee, 1867-02-24.
Melbourne bot. Garden, ¶ 24/2/67. ¶ ¶ Allow me, honored and dear Sir, to introduce to you an esteemed friend of mine, Mr Allan Hughan, who proceeds to your colony with a view of becoming acquainted w...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1867-03-23.
2[3]/3/67 ¶ ¶ I received, dear Dr Hooker, the valuable index to the plants sent away from Kew, also in good condition back all the Compositae I had forwarded for Benthams Work. I have commenced packi...
Ferdinand von Mueller to George Bentham, 1867-03-26.
26/3/67 ¶ ¶ This month, dear Mr Bentham, I have not much to report. Unfortunately I got the rest of the Goodeniaceae not ready for the Yorkshire, as many departmental duties stormed on me, but I shal...
Ferdinand von Mueller to James Grant, 1867-04-06.
Stategarden, Melbourne 6/4/67. ¶ Honorable and dear Sir ¶ ¶ A desire having been evinced by the Government to transfer the establishment, entrusted to my administration, from the Department of the ho...
Ferdinand von Mueller to the Age, 1867-05-??.
¶ Dr. ¶ Mueller ¶ desires us to state that he would feel indebted to any friend of the Gardens sending prepared specimens of any of the birds to be met with around Melbourne, for the formation of a...
Ferdinand von Mueller to the Health Committee of the Corporation of Melbourne, 1867-06-??.
Memorandum of Dr Muellers ¶ ¶ wishes ¶ ¶ and suggestions to the Health Committee of the Corporation of Melbourne. ¶ ¶ That cattle and goats should be excluded from that portion of Yarra Park lying ...
Ferdinand von Mueller to James Grant, 1867-06-08.
Melbourne, bot Garden ¶ 8/6/67 ¶ Sir ¶ ¶ In compliance with your request I have the honor to submit to you a schedule, which may be regarded as the basis of expenditure of wages in the botanic Garden...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Ronald Gunn, 1867-06-12.
Stategarden 12/6/67 ¶ ¶ At a late hour, dear Mr Gunn, I can but briefly & hurriedly respond to your most interesting letter; ¶ still to remove the impression that I advanced inconscientiously observ...
Joseph Hooker to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1867-08-07.
Aug 7/67 ¶ My dear Mueller ¶ ¶ The Wellesley has arrived & brought your case with the Goodeniaceae all safe — many thanks for the Xerotes basket, we have none so new and nice. ¶ ¶ Your ¶ Arran ¶ p...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Carl von Martius, 1867-08-27.
Queenscliff, 27 August 1867. ¶ ¶ Today, noble patron and friend, my letter brings you among other news also some harsh and sad tidings. Your famous, kind nephew Dr F. Bayer, recently still full of vi...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Frederick Barlee, 1867-09-??.
¶ [In a communication received by the Colonial Secretary from Dr. ¶ Mueller ¶ , Melbourne, that gentleman requests it to be made known he is anxious to receive dried and pressed specimens of plants ...
Ferdinand von Mueller to August Petermann, 1867-10-??.
Albany, King Georges Sound, ¶ October 1867. ¶ ¶ I am sending you a few lines from this locality, noble friend, so as not to disrupt my communications for too long. I have, in a manner of speaking, fl...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Frederick Barlee, 1867-10-28.
Albany, 28. Oct. 1867. ¶ ¶ This day, dear Mr Barlee, when returning from my excursion to Stirling's Range, I had the happiness of receiving your most kind letter, ¶ directed to this place. Let me as...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1867-11-15.
Melbourne bot Garden ¶ 15/11/67. ¶ ¶ It gave me great pleasure, dear Dr Hooker, to receive the 3 part of the first vol. of the genera plantarum, ¶ in which such a wonderful amount of research is bro...
George Bentham to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1867-11-17.
25, WILTON PLACE, S.W. ¶ Nov 17/67 ¶ My dear Sir ¶ ¶ I was much pleased to learn by your last letter that you found yourself much better for your visit to Queens Cliff Mr Wilson ¶ whom I met the oth...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Frederick Standish, 1867-11-24.
Melbourne bot. Garden ¶ 24/11/67 ¶ ¶ Allow me, dear Capt Standish, to mention that the Cottage at the Yarra near Jollimont road, will very much require a coat of paint to its verandah and perhaps som...
Ferdinand von Mueller to George Bentham, 1867-11-26.
Melb. bot Garden ¶ 26/11/67. ¶ ¶ The presense of the Prince here, ¶ dear Mr Bentham, and the extrawork thereby arising in my department render it absolutely impossible for me to send off any more pl...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Edward Symonds, 1867-12-31.
¶ The account of judgements referred to in my memorandum of the 19 inst. ¶ was transmitted to the treasury on that day, and the sum claimed £114.1/9d (being portion of the total expenditure for impr...
Ferdinand von Mueller to James Agnew, 1868-01-07.
Melbourne Botanic Gardens, ¶ 7th January, 1868. ¶ ¶ Allow me, dear Dr. Agnew, to offer you, as Hon. Secretary of the Royal Society of Tasmania, a few pages of observations on Tasmanian plants. ¶ If ...
Edmund FitzGibbon to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1868-01-11.
Town Clerk's Office ¶ Town Hall Melbourne ¶ 11th January 1868. ¶ My dear Dr Mueller ¶ ¶ I have only just returned to business and therefore have not been able sooner to answer your letter of the 11th...
George Story to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1868-01-29.
Kelvedon ¶ 29th 1mo ¶ 1868 ¶ Respected Friend ¶ Ferdinand Mueller ¶ ¶ I have no doubt thou art wondering at my long delay in answering thy letters of 18/11/67 & 3/12/67 ¶ — the latter arrived in d...
Ferdinand von Mueller to August Petermann, 1868-02-05.
Melbourne Botanic Garden, ¶ 5 February 1868. ¶ ¶ I am sending you again a few newspaper cuttings, esteemed Professor, that might be welcome for your ¶ ¶ Mittheilungen ¶ , ¶ Mittheilungen aus Justus ...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Asa Gray, 1868-02-05.
5/2/68. ¶ ¶ Just almost at the close of the monthly mail, dear Prof. Gray, I receive simultaneously your most kind letters of the 15. Nov & 2 Dec. ¶ I feel quite ashamed having on so great a man as ...
Ferdinand von Mueller to August Petermann, 1868-02-29.
Melbourne Botanic Garden, ¶ 29 February 1868. ¶ ¶ I was very pleasantly surprised, esteemed Professor, by the kind transmission of the paper ¶ ¶ on M'Intyre's ¶ Duncan McIntyre. ¶ ¶ expedition ¶ ¶...
Ernst Heyne to Messrs Baptist & Sons, 1868-03-??.
Gentlemen ¶ ¶ Accompanied by Mr Carron of the Bot. Gard. I had this morning the pleasure of looking over your fine nursery and I can assure you I was perfectly astonished to see so valuable a collect...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Frederick Barlee, 1868-03-??.
¶ The sample of Gum, sent by you, for examination, is in all respects akin to the Gum Arabic of medicine and commerce, except in its not perfect solubility, a small portion remaining in suspension or...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Carl von Martius, 1868-03-03.
Melbourne Botanic Garden, ¶ 3 March 1868. ¶ ¶ The last mail brought once more a wonderful letter from you, ¶ illustrious friend. O! how delighted I was to be able to gaze into your face, when I rece...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Carl von Hügel, 1868-03-03.
Melbourne, ¶ Royal botanic Garden, ¶ 3/3/68. ¶ ¶ It was a real day of rejoicing for me, Excellency, when recently together with letters from the noble Martius and other illustrious savants another le...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1868-03-12.
Melbourne bot Garden ¶ 12/3/68. ¶ ¶ In shipping to you, dear Dr Hooker, the remaining monopetal. plants for Bentham's work, I have ventured to enclose with the consignment a package of seeds of quick...
Ferdinand von Mueller to August Petermann, 1868-03-29.
Melbourne botanic Garden, ¶ 29 March 1868. ¶ ¶ You cannot imagine, esteemed Professor, what excitement and what fury was generated here in ¶ all ¶ circles by the satanic attack on the life of the e...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1868-04-25.
25/4/68 ¶ ¶ I have only leisure, dear Dr Hooker, to write a few lines by this mail. But I wish to thank you sincerely for your attentive goodness in getting the Edinburgh plants named. It is now 21 y...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Carl von Martius, 1868-05-22.
Melbourne Botanic Garden, ¶ 22 May 1868. ¶ ¶ It is always a joyful day for me, noble Sir, when I receive a letter from your hand. Thus it was again last week. ¶ You overwhelm me with so much kindnes...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Duncan Gillies, 1868-06-29.
Memor. in reference to the expenditure of £149.8.3 incurred by me for gravelling and other operations at Toorack. ¶ The residence of the Governor. ¶ ¶ The honorable the Commissioner of Lands and Surv...
Ferdinand von Mueller to George Bentham, 1868-07-14.
Bot. Gard. Melbourne ¶ 14/7/68 ¶ ¶ It is quite a relief to my mind, dear Mr Bentham, to learn by the telegrams of this mail, that ¶ all ¶ the Boxes bringing material for volume IV have safely arriv...
Wilhelm Sonder to Ferdinand Krauss, 1868-07-28.
Dear Friend, ¶ ¶ You probably had reason to expect a letter from me. At the time you had perhaps not seen Director Schmidt, to whom I wrote before Pentecost, otherwise you would have known that I had...
Ferdinand von Mueller to George Bentham, 1868-08-09.
9/8/68. ¶ I was glad to receive, dear Mr Bentham, the 5 first proofsheets of the 4. vol. ¶ which you so kindly sent, and I look forward with vivid interest to those following. The volume will rather ...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Frederick Barlee, 1868-08-14.
Melbourne botanic Garden ¶ 14/8/68. ¶ ¶ I have to reply to your kind letter of the 23/7, ¶ Letter not found. ¶ ¶ dear Mr Barlee, and am glad to learn, that you are so interested in the plants and se...
Ferdinand von Mueller to George Goyder, 1868-10-06.
Melbourne botanic Garden, ¶ 6/10/68. ¶ Sir ¶ ¶ Observing that in all probability you will proceed at an early date to Arnhem's Land to effect surveys, I have the honor to draw your kind attention to ...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Frederick Barlee, 1868-10-15.
Melbourne Botanical Garden, ¶ October 15,1868. ¶ Since I last had the pleasure of writing to you, I have entered on the examination of some of the West Australian poison plants. In two instances the s...
Ferdinand von Mueller to James Grant, 1868-11-03.
Melbourne botan. Garden ¶ 3/11/68. ¶ Sir ¶ ¶ In compliance with your request I have the honor of submitting to you statements in reference to the anticipated expenditure in the botanic Garden and sci...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1868-12-05.
5/12/68. ¶ ¶ I feel very much indebted, dear Dr Hooker, for your considerate transmission of your luminous adress, ¶ which from one in so eminent a position I shall especially treasure. Accept my be...
Ferdinand von Mueller to George Story, 1869-01-11.
Fenton-Forest ¶ 11/1/69. ¶ ¶ Just before I left Melbourne, dear Dr Story, to invigorate my health by an alpine journey in Tasmania, I received your very kind letter, announcing the arrival of another...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1869-01-15.
On board of the Southern Cross ¶ 15/1/68. ¶ ¶ These lines, dear Dr Hooker, I write on board of the Steamer, which brings me back from a short excursion to Tasmania, which lovely island I at last in t...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Ronald Gunn, 1869-01-16.
Melbourne ¶ 16/1/69. ¶ ¶ Allow me the pleasure, dear Mr Gunn, to introduce to you my distinguished friend, Dr Jam. Rudall, ¶ our celebrated operative & ophthalmic surgeon. You will, I feel sure much...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Samuel Wintle, 1869-02-02.
Melbourne, Botanical Gardens. ¶ February 2nd, 1869. ¶ From the enclosed note you will perceive, dear Mr. Wintle, that Prof. M'Coy determines your vegetable impression as a new one. ¶ I trust that you...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Frederick McCoy, 1869-02-10.
10/2/69 ¶ ¶ It is really very kind of you, dear Professor M'Coy, to send me so generously such a fine selection of Marsupials. ¶ With the Myrmecobius I was gratified above all. I saw this neat littl...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Clement Hodgkinson, 1869-02-18.
¶ There can certainly be no objection to the establishment of a second ferry on the Yarra between that of Jollimont and the City bridge, the distance of the locality now available for an additional f...

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