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Joseph Hooker to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1861-12-08.
Kew Dec 8th/61. ¶ Dr Dr Mueller ¶ ¶ I have little to say but that we are all well & busy. Thanks for your last with the accompanying enclosure. ¶ What a kind fellow Harvey is. I am sure you have act...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Julius Haast, 1861-12-24.
Melbourne Botanic and Zoological Garden, ¶ 24 December 1861. ¶ My dear, noble friend, ¶ ¶ Your wonderful letter of 29 October ¶ was and remains for me a source of unspeakable joy. I have met few peo...
Ferdinand von Mueller to George Bentham, 1861-12-24.
Melbourne bot. & zool. Garden, ¶ 24 Dec. 1861 ¶ My dear and venerable Sir ¶ ¶ Your kind letter, dated 15 Oct, has been to me the source of very great gratification and I feel thankful and proud for y...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Prospero Ramel, 1861-12-25.
¶ I can send other ¶ Dacelo ¶ for the Antilles, since it is thought that they would be useful for the destruction of snakes. ¶ ¶ I hoped to have been the first to send to Europe the new South Aust...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1861-12-25.
Melbourne bot & zool Garden, ¶ 25 Dec 61. ¶ Dear Doctor Hooker. ¶ ¶ I herewith beg to forward to you the list of vegetable articles, procured under my superintendence and through the aid of friends f...
Ferdinand von Mueller to William Hooker, 1861-12-26.
26./12./61. ¶ Dear Sir William ¶ ¶ I have great pleasure in forwarding to you the bill of loading of the first consignment of Thalamiflorae for Mr Benthams work, trusting that these irrestorable trea...
Ferdinand von Mueller to William Wills, 1862-01-05.
Melbourne Botanical Gardens, ¶ January 5th, 1862. ¶ My Dear Dr. Wills, ¶ ¶ It affords me a melancholy satisfaction that the humble tribute which I wish to pay to the memory of your lamented son, in a...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1862-01-24.
24/1/62 ¶ Dear Dr Hooker. ¶ ¶ I am very much delighted with the prospect of securing Nuphar, Papyrus &c for our garden through your great kindness & liberality, also much grateful for your goodness o...
Ferdinand von Mueller to George Bentham, 1862-01-24.
Melbourne bot & zool. Garden ¶ 24 Jan. 62. ¶ My dear Mr Bentham. ¶ ¶ I am highly gratified with your very kind communication received by last mail and the interesting remarks on Australian Botany, wh...
Ferdinand von Mueller to William Hooker, 1862-01-24.
24/1/62. ¶ My dear Sir William. ¶ ¶ I have to thank you for an other friendly letter, you honored me with under date of 2. Nov. ¶ It is always delightful to hear of you and your direct communication...
James Bruce to Frederick McCoy, 1862-02-09.
Cranbourne ¶ Feby 9th 1862 ¶ Dear Sir ¶ ¶ I received your note of 4th inst ¶ on Friday last — too late to forward an answer — I now send this by first post — I am sorry to inform you that it is now ...
Ferdinand von Mueller to William Hooker, 1862-02-20.
Melb. bot. Garden ¶ 20/2/62. ¶ My dear Sir William. ¶ ¶ The monthly mail from England has not arrived as yet altho 10 days overdue; thus I have little occasion to write, beyond expressing a hope that...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Julius Haast, 1862-03-03.
Melbourne, Botanic and Zoological Garden, ¶ 3 March 1862. ¶ Noble friend, ¶ ¶ I am aware that I have acknowledged only recently the manifold demonstrations of your kindness; but to reward them is not...
August Petermann to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1862-03-06.
6 March 1862. ¶ Esteemed patron and friend, ¶ ¶ Since my letter to you of 12 September ¶ A. Petermann to M, 12 September 1861. ¶ ¶ I have had the pleasure to safely receive all your ¶ ¶ kind ¶ ¶ l...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Julius Haast, 1862-03-18.
18 March 1862. ¶ Dearest friend, ¶ ¶ In today's session of the Acclimation Society ¶ a suitable opportunity arose to mention your application, that the Government of Canterbury be prepared to contri...
George Bentham to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1862-03-24.
Kew ¶ March 24 1862 ¶ My dear Sir, ¶ ¶ I received last month your letter ¶ M to G. Bentham, 24 December 1861. ¶ ¶ announcing the despatch of the first instalment of your plants but did not reply imm...
Joseph Hooker to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1862-04-11.
Kew April 11th/62 ¶ My dear Mueller ¶ ¶ To day arrived the box of your Herbarium, ¶ which shall be duly attended to & returned safe & sound, with I hope some useful masses of additions from our Herb...
George Bentham to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1862-04-18.
25, WILTON PLACE, S.W. ¶ April 18 1862 ¶ My dear Sir, ¶ ¶ I have now the pleasure to report that your first box of specimens arrived at Kew a few days since quite safe and in excellent order I have o...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Friedrich Miquel, 1862-04-21.
Botanical and Zoological Garden, Melbourne ¶ 21 April 1862 ¶ My very dear Professor. ¶ ¶ Through the kind agency of my friend Consul Van Amstel a small parcel will be sent to you either by post or ot...
Ferdinand von Mueller to William Hooker, 1862-04-24.
Melb. bot. Garden, ¶ 24/4/62 ¶ Dear Sir William. ¶ ¶ I have to acknowledge your friendly communications of 3 different dates by last mail, ¶ and am obliged indeed for all the interest you continue t...
Archibald Gilchrist to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1862-04-24.
MELBOURNE, APRIL 24, 1862. ¶ Sir, ¶ ¶ I ¶ Have ¶ the honor to request the favor of your presence at the ¶ First Annual Dinner ¶ of ¶ Graduates of the Melbourne University ¶ , on ¶ Thursday, May...
John Kirk to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1862-05-04.
My dear Sir, ¶ ¶ I have just received your kind and welcome letter of August, ’61. ¶ Letter not found. ¶ ¶ Being at the present moment about to start for the Portuguese town of Zette, ¶ Printer's er...
Ferdinand von Mueller to John O'Shanassy, 1862-05-14.
Melbourne botanic Garden ¶ 14 May 62. ¶ Sir ¶ ¶ In compliance with your request ¶ I have the honor of submitting for your consideration a copy of the proposed rules, which I would beg to recommend t...
Frederick McCoy to Robert Brough Smyth, 1862-05-16.
16th May 1862 ¶ Sir, ¶ ¶ Since the receipt of your letter of the 15th ¶ ¶ of ¶ ¶ April informing me "that it had been brought under the notice of the Government that some proposal for the removal f...
Ferdinand von Mueller to George Bentham, 1862-05-23.
Melbourne botan. Garden ¶ 23/5/62 ¶ Dear Mr Bentham. ¶ ¶ I hoped to have sent to you by this mail the remittance of £100 in aid of the work on Australian plants. But the Parliament has not yet passed...
George Bentham to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1862-05-24.
London May 24 1862 ¶ My dear Sir, ¶ ¶ I wrote to you the other day in great haste for I do not like to encroach on my working hours at Kew by writing letters and at home I have been very much engaged...
Ferdinand von Mueller to John O'Shanassy, 1862-06-14.
Melbourne, botanic Garden, ¶ 14 June 1862. ¶ Sir ¶ ¶ I have the honor of bringing under your favorable consideration a proposal of publishing an extract of the larger work on Victorian plants in Octa...
George Bentham to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1862-06-24.
Kew June 24/62 ¶ My dear Sir, ¶ ¶ Since I wrote last month ¶ I have done the Australian Cruciferae, Capparideae, Violaceae & Bixineae (following the order of our Genera) ¶ and am now in Pittosporea...
Ferdinand von Mueller to George Bentham, 1862-06-24.
24/6/62 ¶ Dear Mr Bentham. ¶ ¶ I am glad to learn, that the boxes pr Young Australian & pr Great Britain arrived. Pray bear in mind, that I have run the risk of sending the magnificent set of Rutacea...
Ferdinand von Mueller to August Petermann, 1862-06-26.
26 June 1862. ¶ Esteemed Sir, ¶ ¶ On receiving your letter I immediately wrote to the Surveyor Generals for the colonies of South Australia, Western Australia, Tasmania, Queensland, and New South Wal...
Ferdinand von Mueller to John Balfour, 1862-06-26.
26. june 62. ¶ My dear Professor Balfour. ¶ ¶ I am much obliged to you for your kindness of sending me so regularly the records and publications of your botanical Society and recently the highly inte...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Johan Areschoug, 1862-06-26.
Melbourne botanic Garden, ¶ 26 June 1862. ¶ Esteemed Professor, ¶ ¶ Receive my sincere gratitude for your great kindness of having obtained for me a seat in the venerable old Academy of Uppsala, ¶ w...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Adolphe Brongniart, 1862-06-26.
Melbourne botanic Garden, ¶ 26 Jun 62 ¶ Most honored Sir ¶ ¶ The receipt of your friendly letter, dated 20 April, ¶ has been to me the source of great pleasure, as it brings me for the first time in...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Decaisne, 1862-06-26.
26/6/62 ¶ My dear Professor ¶ ¶ I enclose the only flowering specimen I have of Trichosanthes subvelutina I have forwarded a few other Cucurbitaceae to you by the last mail. ¶ As I shall make up som...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Julius Haast, 1862-06-29.
Melbourne, ¶ 29 June 1862. ¶ My dear friend, ¶ ¶ Your kind letters, dated Lake Te Kupo, ¶ 18 May, and Christchurch, 2 June, have reached me recently. ¶ I congratulate you on your magnificent achiev...
Ferdinand von Mueller to William Hooker, 1862-07-04.
Melbourne bot. Garden ¶ 4 July 62. ¶ My dear Sir William ¶ ¶ I beg to enclose bill of loading of 2 cases with dried plants, shipped to your adress pr Ship Kent this day. ¶ ¶ This consignment compri...
George Bentham to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1862-07-14.
Kew London W ¶ July 14 1862 ¶ My dear Sir, ¶ ¶ Two days ago I dispatched to the Kew Garden agent to be shipped per Norfolk for Melbourne your first box, into which — as it came far from full, I have ...
Ferdinand von Mueller to John O'Shanassy, 1862-07-16.
Melbourne botanic Garden ¶ 16 July 1862 ¶ Sir ¶ ¶ In reply to your minute, dated 22. June, ¶ I have the honor to inform you, that Mr Ferres estimates the cost of 24 pages of octavo printing at £8.-....
Ferdinand von Mueller to John O'Shanassy, 1862-07-22.
Melbourne botanic Garden, ¶ 22 July 62. ¶ Sir ¶ ¶ I have the honor to solicit, that you will be pleased to empower Capt. Norman of HM.C.S. "Victoria" to draw the amount of £12.5/— being an account pa...
George Bentham to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1862-07-24.
Kew July 24/62 ¶ My dear Sir, ¶ ¶ My letter dated the 14th I believe was finished on the post day (last Saturday) and despatched to save the post via Southampton — That same evening arrived yours of ...
Ferdinand von Mueller to George Bentham, 1862-07-24.
Melbourne bot.Garden, ¶ 24 July 1862 ¶ My very dear Sir. ¶ ¶ I am in possession of your very kind letters dated ¶ ¶ , ¶ and am glad to learn, that your & Dr Hookers important work on the genera pl...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Julius Haast, 1862-07-29.
29 July 1862. ¶ My dearest friend, ¶ ¶ It gives me great pleasure to be able to send to you today a few reprints of your noble landscape sketches of the Mount Cook glacier. ¶ See M to J. Haast, 25 Ma...
Ferdinand von Mueller to John O'Shanassy, 1862-08-02.
Melbourne botanic Garden, ¶ 2 Aug. 1862 ¶ Sir ¶ ¶ I have the honor of submitting to you a brief report on the progress of the work in the botanical gardens during the past month. ¶ ¶ Altho' the seas...
Joseph Hooker to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1862-08-22.
Kew Aug 22/62 ¶ My dear Mueller ¶ ¶ Your very intelligent friend Mr Osborne called today ¶ & I have given him such letters as I could on the spur of the moment & when everybody almost is out of Town...
George Bentham to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1862-08-25.
Church Stretton ¶ Augt 25/62 ¶ My dear Mueller, ¶ ¶ Yours of the 24/2 June ¶ reached me yesterday in time to let you know by this overland that the 4th box per Orwell is I hear safely arrived at Kew...
Ferdinand von Mueller to George Bentham, 1862-08-26.
Melbourne bot. ¶ Garden 26/8/62 ¶ My dear Mr Bentham ¶ ¶ I am in receipt of your letter, dated 24 June, which arrived by last mail, and am alarmed about the apparent non-arrival of the box with Rutac...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Étienne de Rufz de Lavison, 1862-08-26.
26 August 1862. ¶ ¶ Sir, ¶ ¶ …. I shall always grasp with the greatest pleasure opportunities of being useful to your establishment, and I have the honour of informing you that the Acclimatisation S...
Ferdinand von Mueller to the Council of the Board of Agriculture, Victoria, 1862-09-??.
¶ The Sub-Committee of the Board of Agriculture, appointed to ascertain the efficiency of Mr. Patrick Hayes's method of destroying the thistles, met twice at the ground adjoining the terminus of the ...
Ferdinand von Mueller to George Bentham, 1862-09-24.
Melb bot Garden ¶ 24/9/62. ¶ Dear Mr Bentham. ¶ ¶ Your last letter ¶ Presumably G. Bentham to M, 14 July 1862,orG. Bentham to M,24 July 1862. ¶ ¶ alleviated my fear about the right arrival of the Ru...
Ferdinand von Mueller to William Pamplin, 1862-09-26.
Melbourne bot Garden ¶ 26/9/62 ¶ Dear Mr Pamplin ¶ ¶ I am already in possession of the two cases with books, which you were good enough to forward to me pr "Kooria Mooria" and which arrived in excell...

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