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Ferdinand von Mueller

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  • Ferdinand von Mueller to the Gardeners' Chronicle, 1879-05-??.
    ¶ From the enclosed letter ¶ of Canon ¶ King ¶ (son of Admiral ¶ King ¶ ), you will perceive that this gentleman was the original discoverer of the Bolbophyllum minutissimum, of which until now I...
    • Ferdinand von Mueller to the Société d'acclimatation, Paris, 1879-05-??.
      [Mr. Raveret-Wattel places on the table seeds of several species of Eucalyptus and some other useful vegetables of Australia. These seeds are sent to the Society by Baron Ferd. Von Mueller, whose zeal...
      • Ferdinand von Mueller to the Verein zur Beförderung des Gartenbaues in den Königlichen Preussischen Staaten, 1879-05-??.
        ¶ In answer to your question I would like to remark that certainly the alpine species of ¶ Eucalyptus ¶ would endure the climate of middle Europe, but even then the growth of these species ( ¶ E. a...
        • Queen Victoria to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1879-05-24.
          Victoria R. I. ¶ AUSPICIUM MELIORIS AEVI ¶ ¶ Victoria by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Queen, Defender of the Faith, Empress of India Sovereign and Chief of the ...
          • Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1879-05-27.
            27/5/79. ¶ ¶ Since Queen's Birthday, dear Sir Joseph, I have been in a whirl of joyous excitement through the utterly unexpected honor conferred on me by our gracious Sovereign. ¶ If I had received ...
            • Ferdinand von Mueller to Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach, 1879-05-28.
              28/5/79 ¶ ¶ Permit me, noble Sir, to express my deep-felt condolence for the great loss that you have to mourn by the death of your respected father. ¶ Wherever the natural history of plants and ani...
              • Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1879-05-28.
                28/5/79. ¶ Could you, dear Sir Joseph, not lend us your ¶ powerful ¶ aid in getting seeds of the "Coapim" ¶ Panicum spectabile? ¶ You may have thought, that we ¶ had ¶ it in Australia, but I nev...
                • Ferdinand von Mueller to Ferdinand von Krauss, 1879-05-29.
                  29/5/79 ¶ ¶ Since an extra post for Europe (per ¶ Northumberland ¶ ) closes today, I am sending you, my worthy Friend, some lines to inform you that I have at last succeeded in getting you a well pr...
                  • Ferdinand von Mueller to the Melbourner Deutscher Krankenverein, 1879-06-??.
                    ¶ [A letter from Sir Ferd. von Mueller in which he expressed his thanks to the Society for the congratulations that were expressed to him on the part of the Society ¶ and requested information when ...
                    • Ferdinand von Mueller to Bayley Balfour, 1879-06-04.
                      4/6/79 ¶ ¶ This day, dear Dr Balfour, I received already a copy of the new transactions of the Bot. Soc. of Edinburgh, in which your ¶ ¶ splendid ¶ ¶ paper on the Halophilas is contained. ¶ J.Balfo...
                      • Ferdinand von Mueller to Thomas Huxley, 1879-06-08.
                        Melbourne ¶ 8/6/79 ¶ ¶ Allow me, dear Professor Huxley, to solicit your powerful support for the election of Prof McCoy, FGS, into the Royal Society next November. ¶ As a fellow worker in the same s...
                        • Ferdinand von Mueller to William Carruthers, 1879-06-08.
                          Melbourne ¶ 8/6/79 ¶ ¶ Allow me, dear Mr Carruthers, to ask your favor in supporting the Candidature of Professor Fred. M'Coy for the Royal Society next November. ¶ ¶ As a leading palaeontologist ¶...
                          • Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1879-06-08.
                            Melbourne ¶ 8/6/79. ¶ ¶ These lines, dear Sir Joseph, concern solely the Royal Society, into which I wish very much to be elected: Prof Frederick M'Coy, FGS, a friend in your youth, who often speaks ...
                            • Ferdinand von Mueller to George Bentham, 1879-06-08.
                              ¶ Allow me, dear Mr Bentham, to offer you my best felicitation to your membership of the Order of St Michael & St George, ¶ though I wished that I at once could congratulate you to ¶ the long earne...
                              • Ferdinand von Mueller to John Shillinglaw, 1879-06-21.
                                21/6/79. ¶ ¶ It will afford me much pleasure dear Mr Shillinglaw, to visit you some evening, to participate in your hospitality and to look over the ¶ material for your important opus ¶ . ¶ With reg...
                                • Ferdinand von Mueller to John Forrest, 1879-07-??.
                                  ¶ [If my own wishes are to be expressed concerning the list of plants from Nickol Bay. ¶ WA. ¶ ¶ I should prefer it to form part of your own report as an appendix, as a separate publication it will ...
                                  • Ferdinand von Mueller to John Shillinglaw, 1879-07-03.
                                    3/7/79. ¶ ¶ The autogram, dear Mr Shillinglaw, from the famous Flinders is a real ¶ ¶ treasure ¶ , which my Italian Lady-friend ¶ Maria Negri?See M to J. Shillinglaw, 31 March 1979(in this edition a...
                                    • William Woolls to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1879-07-04.
                                      Richmond ¶ July 4/79 ¶ My dear Baron ¶ ¶ I have forwarded the Book to Mr. Alkin, ¶ & also your kind letter for his perusal. ¶ Dr. Ward lately sent me a flower of an Orchid which he says came from T...
                                      • Ferdinand von Mueller to Jules Planchon, 1879-07-05.
                                        ¶ Your tracts on phylloxera have so much the more interest for us because this wretched parasite invaded our territory 3 years ago. It nevertheless seems that the rooting up and burning of the sick v...
                                        • Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1879-07-06.
                                          6/7/79. ¶ ¶ By this post, dear Sir Joseph, I send you a few more plates of the Eucalyptography, ¶ That is, plates forB79.13.11. ¶ ¶ and I hope to submit to you soon the two or three first decades co...
                                          • Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1879-07-09.
                                            9/7/79 ¶ ¶ Without wishing to be intrusive or immodest, dear Sir Joseph, I like to ask, whether a fragment of Eucalyptus oligantha could be spared at Kew? It is of course important, that I should hav...
                                            • Ferdinand von Mueller to Alphonse de Candolle, 1879-07-09.
                                              9/7/79. ¶ ¶ Herewith, dear Professor DeCandolle, I beg to send you a few fragments of Euc. dealbata, with a view of learning from you, whether this is the true E. pallens of your illustrious father. ...
                                              • Ferdinand von Mueller to Malcolm Fraser, 1879-07-17.
                                                The plants prove of great interest to extend our knowledge of the geographic range traversed by some species through your tropical territory. After careful examination of the whole material, I will pr...
                                                • William Woolls to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1879-07-19.
                                                  Richmond ¶ July 19 /79 ¶ My dear Baron, ¶ ¶ I send you a paragraph from to-day's ¶ Herald ¶ . ¶ It will keep the pot boiling! ¶ ¶ I recd. the first proof of my book ¶ last night & hope to get it ...
                                                  • F. Kilner to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1879-07-22.
                                                    Custom House ¶ Rockhampton ¶ 22nd July 1879 ¶ Dear Baron ¶ ¶ I forward with this a parcel containing specimens of the flower and seed vessels of the Eucalyptus citriodora. At present none other of th...
                                                    • Ferdinand von Mueller to Ferdinand von Krauss, 1879-07-23.
                                                      23/7/79 ¶ ¶ It is inconceivable to me, respected friend, that you still were without a specimen of ¶ Anseranas melanoleuca ¶ . ¶ I have added a specimen to the collection just made ready for the sh...
                                                      • Ferdinand von Mueller to Ferdinand von Krauss, 1879-07-25.
                                                        ¶ The pieces of wood will have no value for you, so I ask you to let your great neighbouring xylographer, Professor Nördlinger in Tübingen have them. ¶ ¶ The Reverend Cambridge also works on Austral...
                                                        • Ferdinand von Mueller to William Henry Archer, 1879-07-27.
                                                          27/7/79 ¶ ¶ Let me acknowledge your generous letter, dear Chevalier Archer, conveying your felicitation to the unexpected and high honor, bestowed on me from the British throne. ¶ If anything could ...
                                                          • Ferdinand von Mueller to Casimir Raveret-Wattel, 1879-08-??.
                                                            ¶ Dr Hance, English consul at Canton, has published, in Trimen's journal of botany (April 1879), ¶ a very interesting article on the fabrication of Chinese mats, that are made in quantity in the nei...
                                                            • Ferdinand von Mueller to the Linnean Society of London, 1879-08-??.
                                                              FORM OF RECOMMENDATION ¶ FOR A FELLOW OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY OF LONDON. ¶ J. G. Otto Tepper Esqr ¶ of Adelaide ¶ a gentleman attached to the study of Natural History, especially ¶ entomology...
                                                              • Eduard von Regel to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1879-08-01.
                                                                St Petersburg, 20 July 1879 ¶ Revered friend, ¶ ¶ In reply to your letter of 5 May, ¶ which has just arrived, as follows: The remarks on ¶ Elaeagnus kologa ¶ are by C. Salomon, ¶ who is hardly ve...
                                                                • Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1879-08-16.
                                                                  16/8/79. ¶ ¶ Let me express to you my best thanks, dear Sir Joseph, for your generous felicitation to the ¶ unexpected ¶ high distinction, which the grace of her Majesty conferred on me. ¶ A congr...
                                                                  • Ferdinand von Mueller to Ferdinand von Krauss, 1879-08-16.
                                                                    16/8/79. ¶ ¶ Your kind letter of 3 July, ¶ best of friends, is to hand for my answer. Let me hope that you have returned newly strengthened from your holiday journey during the pleasant weeks of the...
                                                                    • Patrick O'Shanesy to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1879-08-20.
                                                                      Cometville ¶ August 20 1879 ¶ Dear Baron Mueller ¶ ¶ I am in receipt of your kind note and am very thankful for the name of the Eucalyptus. A specimen of the trunk of this tree was cut for me by a f...
                                                                      • Ferdinand von Mueller to Vincenzo Cesati, 1879-08-22.
                                                                        In 1829, Friedrich Dehnhardt published in Naples ¶ Catalogus plantarum Horti Camaldulensis ¶ , of which appeared in 1832, also in Naples, an augmented edition. In that list a Eucalyptus was described...
                                                                        • Ferdinand von Mueller to James Dickinson, 1879-09-??.
                                                                          ¶ [ ¶ Sir.—Herewith you will receive three ¶ ¶ small packets of seed of three bamboos, ¶ It is probable that the three species implied are those listed underArundinaria falcata, inB76.12.04, where M...
                                                                          • Ferdinand von Mueller to Robert Muir, 1879-09-??.
                                                                            [ ¶ Dr von Mueller requested me to send him a Sketch of Lake Muir, so as he can send it to some Geographic Journal.] ¶ Muir continued 'Not having one I take the Liberty of applying to you for it'. Fra...
                                                                            • Ferdinand von Mueller to the Leader, 1879-09-??.
                                                                              Mr. Alex. Forrest, the leader of the present expedition, was second in command of his brother's celebrated expedition from West Australia to South Australia a few years ago. He has accomplished a glor...
                                                                              • Frederick McCoy to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1879-09-??.
                                                                                [ ¶ In a letter, written to me in September 1879, he traces the Mellitose-flow also to the action of Cyclocheila Australiae, likewise fully described and brilliantly figured in the Decade quoted above...
                                                                                • Ferdinand von Mueller to Alphonse de Candolle, 1879-09-03.
                                                                                  3/9/79. ¶ ¶ By this post, honored Sir, I beg to send you the first two decades of my Monography of the Eucalyptus-species, ¶ and two more decades will soon follow. On this genus, which prevails over...
                                                                                  • Alexander Forrest to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1879-09-06.
                                                                                    ¶ Katherine Telegraph Station, Port ¶ ¶ Darwin line, ¶ ¶ 6th September, 1879. Arrived ¶ ¶ here safe. Have secured you a valuable collection of plants, ¶ ¶ ¶ Alex. Forrest....
                                                                                    • Ferdinand von Mueller to Ferdinand von Richthofen, 1879-09-09.
                                                                                      9/9/79. ¶ Baron von Richthofen, President of the Geographical Society in Berlin ¶ ¶ Permit me to present the new survey map of the Nickol Bay district ¶ to you on which Mr John Forrest, the famous g...
                                                                                      • Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1879-09-11.
                                                                                        11/9/79. ¶ ¶ I have just received two copies of the W.A. Forest-report, ¶ dear Sir Joseph, which you were so good to see through the press. As the "Garonne" takes an extramail this afternoon, I hast...
                                                                                        • Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1879-09-15.
                                                                                          15/9/79 ¶ ¶ The Governor sent me this morning, dear Sir Joseph, the circular letter of your son in law, ¶ respecting the seeds of Cytisus proliferus. I had it since many years in culture during my D...
                                                                                          • Richard Kippist to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1879-09-18.
                                                                                            Linnean Society. ¶ Burlington House, London, W. ¶ Septr. 18th., 1879 ¶ Dear Baron von Mueller ¶ ¶ In a letter of yours of Apr 16/74, ¶ Letter not found. ¶ ¶ you rightly take credit for having been t...
                                                                                            • Charles Moore to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1879-09-20.
                                                                                              Sydney 20 ¶ Sepr ¶ 1879 ¶ My dear Baron ¶ ¶ I have been & am so much engaged, & besides so much depressed in spirits, that my correspondence has been wholly neglected. You of all others I wished to ...
                                                                                              • Ferdinand von Mueller to Graham Berry, 1879-09-25.
                                                                                                QUARTERLY ESTIMATE. ¶ To the Honorable ¶ ¶ the Chief Secretary ¶ Sir ¶ , ¶ ¶ I have the honor to submit for approval the following Estimate* of Expenditure during the ¶ ¶ two months ¶ two monthsove...
                                                                                                • Ferdinand von Mueller to William Odgers, 1879-09-27.
                                                                                                  Melbourne, ¶ 27/9/1879. ¶ To W. H. Odgers Esqr. ¶ Undersecretary. ¶ Sir,...
                                                                                                  • Ferdinand von Mueller to Julius von Haast, 1879-09-29.
                                                                                                    29/9/79 ¶ ¶ Today's mail, noble friend, brought me the important volume of your geological researches, which your dedicatory inscription makes all the more valuable for me. ¶ What a store of origina...
                                                                                                    • Ferdinand von Mueller to Robert Herbert, 1879-09-29.
                                                                                                      Covenant for the Restoration of the Insignia of a Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George. ¶ . ¶ ¶ . ¶ ¶ I hereby covenant and promise that in case I shou...
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