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Ferdinand von Mueller

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  • Ferdinand von Mueller to Friedrich Wöhler, 1866-09-14.
    Melbourne Royal botanic Garden, ¶ 14 September 1866. ¶ ¶ The purpose of this hasty letter, esteemed and noble Sir, is simply to inform you, that this day I sent a small case of Australian minerals wi...
    • Ferdinand von Mueller to Carl von Martius, 1866-09-26.
      Melbourne Royal Botanic Garden, ¶ 26 September 1866. ¶ ¶ I hesitated, noble Sir, to approach you in the midst of the horror of the war. ¶ Your mind must have been troubled enough, having watched fro...
      • Ferdinand von Mueller to Redmond Barry, 1866-10-05.
        5/10/66. ¶ Dear Sir Redmond. ¶ ¶ I feel grateful for your assurance, that you will kindly bring my proposition for adding a few books to the the ¶ valuable set in the bot. section of the public Libr...
        • Ferdinand von Mueller to August Petermann, 1866-11-24.
          24 November 1866. ¶ ¶ Enclosed, esteemed Professor, you receive the diary of the late traveller McIntyre. ¶ It will show you how great a loss we suffered with the death of this man. I hope soon to b...
          • Ferdinand von Mueller to Carl von Martius, 1866-11-27.
            27 November 1866. ¶ ¶ I cannot, venerated Sir, put your kind private letter, ¶ so rich in content, aside unanswered until the next mail. I would rather let my thoughts skip lightly from sentence to...
            • Ferdinand von Mueller to Carl von Martius, 1866-11-29.
              Melbourne Botanic Garden, ¶ 29 November 1866. ¶ ¶ How can I thank you, noble Sir, for all the tokens of your kindness? You have elected me as a member of the venerable Academy, ¶ in which you, celeb...
              • the Königliche Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften, Göttingen to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1866-12-01.
                The ¶ Royal ¶ Society of Science ¶ At Göttingen ¶ Appoints...
                • Ferdinand von Mueller to Eduard Fenzl, 1866-12-25.
                  Melbourne, ¶ Christmas Day 1866. ¶ ¶ Accept my congratulatory salutations, revered and noble friend, on the engagement of your excellent daughter, and permit me to wish, that her union with a worthy ...
                  • Ferdinand von Mueller to Carl von Martius, 1866-12-25.
                    Melbourne Botanic Garden, ¶ Christmas Day 1866. ¶ ¶ I would not want to let the feast day pass, noble Sir, without offering you my congratulatory salutations for the new year. O, I wish it may be one...
                    • Ferdinand von Mueller to August Petermann, 1866-12-25.
                      Christmas 1866. ¶ ¶ I thank you, esteemed Sir, for the beautiful map of Germany, showing the wonderful reshaping of Germany. ¶ ¶ McIntyre's diary ¶ will provide you with new contributions for the m...
                      • Ferdinand von Mueller to Hermann Helmholtz, 1866-12-31.
                        Melbourne Botanic Garden, ¶ New Year's Eve 1866. ¶ ¶ For a long time, noble Sir, it has been my intention to give public expression to my sentiments of veneration for you by conferring your great nam...
                        • Ferdinand von Mueller to August Petermann, 1867-01-22.
                          Melbourne Botanic Garden, ¶ 22 January 1867. ¶ ¶ You were so kind, esteemed Professor, to send me the last copies of your ¶ ¶ Mittheilungen ¶ , ¶ Mittheilungen aus Justus Perhes' geographischer Anst...
                          • Ferdinand von Mueller to Johan Lange, 1867-01-27.
                            Melbourne, Botanic Garden, ¶ 27 January 1867. ¶ ¶ It is my honourable duty, revered colleague, to express my sincere gratitude to the Botanical Society of Copenhagen for my election to it. ¶ It does...
                            • Ferdinand von Mueller to Jacob Agardh, 1867-01-28.
                              28 January 1867. ¶ ¶ Indeed, esteemed Professor, I do not know, if I discharged my promise to send you a case of algae. I am not very methodical in keeping a book about consignments, and I feel as if...
                              • 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 Henry Bolander, 1867-02-12.
                                  12/2/67 ¶ Respected Professor ¶ ¶ I received your friendly letter only yesterday, ¶ which made me very happy, because I learnt from it that now a new path is opened to you and your great […]. Allow ...
                                  • Wilhelm Sonder to Ferdinand Krauss, 1867-02-19.
                                    Hamburg, 19 February 1867. ¶ Esteemed Sir, ¶ ¶ Some time ago I received the enclosed pamphlet from friend Mueller in Melbourne. It should have been enclosed with a transmission I had to make to you o...
                                    • Ferdinand von Mueller to Jacob Agardh, 1867-02-24.
                                      Melbourne Botanic Garden, ¶ 24 February 1867. ¶ Noble Sir, ¶ ¶ I intend to dispatch a case to you via London with the ship ¶ Kent ¶ , which will sail during this week. This will contain a large amou...
                                      • Ferdinand von Mueller to Julius Haast, 1867-02-25.
                                        Melbourne, in the State Garden, ¶ 25 February 1867. ¶ ¶ You have much cause, noble friend, to be dissatisfied with me on account of my long silence. But when I tell you that this grandiose Exhibition...
                                        • Ferdinand von Mueller to Jacob Agardh, 1867-02-27.
                                          Melbourne, Royal Botanic Garden, ¶ 27 February 1867. ¶ ¶ This day, esteemed Professor, I sent a case for you by the ship ¶ Kent ¶ to my agents, Messieurs Betham & Blackitt, ¶ Cox's Quay, Lower Tha...
                                          • Wilhelm Sonder to Ferdinand Krauss, 1867-03-16.
                                            Hamburg, 16 March 1867. ¶ Dear Professor, ¶ ¶ Before replying to you I had to await a letter, that had been announced to me and relates to the same subject. A very great honour is intended for my fri...
                                            • Wilhelm Sonder to Ferdinand Krauss, 1867-05-09.
                                              Neuenwall ¶ Hamburg, 9 May 1867. ¶ Dear Professor, ¶ ¶ Absent on business for some time, and after my return constantly kept busy, I was prevented from replying sooner to your friendly letter of 19 M...
                                              • Ferdinand von Mueller to Wilhelm Sonder, 1867-05-13.
                                                Notice ¶ on a species of ¶ ¶ Argonauta ¶ ¶ from the South coast ¶ ¶ of Australia. ¶ ¶ A friend, Mons. Baudinot, ¶ W. C. Baudinet? See Baudinette (1990). ¶ ¶ who lived for many years on the small ...
                                                • Ferdinand von Mueller to Carl von Martius, 1867-05-27.
                                                  State Garden of Melbourne, ¶ 27 May 1867. ¶ My dear venerable old friend, ¶ ¶ Recently Dr Scheffler's excellent work on medical optics and their connection with general philosophy of nature came into...
                                                  • Ferdinand von Mueller to Friedrich Wöhler, 1867-05-27.
                                                    Melbourne State Garden, ¶ 27 May 1867. ¶ Noble Sir, ¶ ¶ I have the honourable duty, to express my deeply felt gratitude to the old, venerable Academy of Science in Göttingen for the unexpected kindne...
                                                    • Ferdinand von Mueller to Filippo Parlatore, 1867-05-27.
                                                      Melbourne Botanic Garden, ¶ 27 May 1867 ¶ Dear Sir, ¶ ¶ I am particularly anxious to introduce here some of our European field and water plants etc., which would probably thrive quite well here in su...
                                                      • Ferdinand von Mueller to Friedrich Wöhler, 1867-06-28.
                                                        State Garden, ¶ 28 June 1867. ¶ Noble Sir, ¶ ¶ The last monthly mail brought me your kind lines of 26 March, ¶ to which I am going to reply only briefly, as my poor state of health just now makes ex...
                                                        • Wilhelm Sonder to Ferdinand Krauss, 1867-07-01.
                                                          Hamburg, 1 July 1867. ¶ Dear Professor, ¶ ¶ I received a letter today from Director von Schmidt ¶ notifying me of the arrival of the two tree-ferns. And that reminded me that I must write to you bef...
                                                          • Ferdinand von Mueller to Carl von Martius, 1867-07-25.
                                                            Queenscliff, ¶ 25/7/67 ¶ ¶ I have withdrawn here into rural tranquillity, noble Sir, to strengthen my precarious health under the influence of the sea air. For ¶ six ¶ years I have not been out of...
                                                            • Ferdinand von Mueller to Eduard Fenzl, 1867-07-26.
                                                              Queenscliff, ¶ 26/7/67. ¶ ¶ I am writing from the coast, noble Sir, where I am seeking restoration of my dwindled strength, after I had not left my department for a single day in 6 years. Weak as I a...
                                                              • Ferdinand von Mueller to Julius Haast, 1867-07-28.
                                                                Queenscliff, ¶ 28/7/67. ¶ ¶ These lines, dear friend, I am writing to you from the coast, where I moved to find new strength in some brief rural quiet and the breathing of fresh sea air, after I had...
                                                                • Wilhelm Sonder to Ferdinand Krauss, 1867-08-06.
                                                                  Hamburg, 6 August 1867. ¶ Dear Professor, ¶ ¶ The case with the natural history objects ¶ was sent yesterday, freight paid, by rail, per address of the Royal Natural History Museum in Stuttgart. It ...
                                                                  • Ferdinand von Mueller to Sven Lovén, 1867-08-24.
                                                                    Melbourne, Royal Botanic Garden, ¶ The Melbourne Botanic Gardens was not granted a Royal Charter until 1958. M probably wished to emphasise that it was the Government garden — which meant that, techni...
                                                                    • Ferdinand von Mueller to Eduard Fenzl, 1867-08-27.
                                                                      Melbourne Botanic Garden, ¶ 27 August 1867. ¶ Dear Sir, ¶ ¶ In the absence of Dr Mueller, ¶ whose weakened state of health necessitated that he should seek rest and a change of air away from the dep...
                                                                      • 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...
                                                                        • Charles Walter to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1867-09-12.
                                                                          Dear Doctor, ¶ ¶ Saturday the 7th I arrived here on my tour to Mount Buller; on Sunday I had the pleasure of seeing clearly and distinctly this majestic mountain covered with snow; we have unfortunat...
                                                                          • Friedrich Hagenauer to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1867-09-12.
                                                                            Aboriginal Mission Station ¶ Lake Wellington, Gippsland ¶ Dear Sir ¶ ¶ Please forgive me for not replying to your request in connection with Mr Darwin’s questions before today. I hope that these answ...
                                                                            • 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 Julius Haast, 1867-10-09.
                                                                                Botanic Garden, 9 October 1867. ¶ Dear Sir, ¶ ¶ In the absence of Dr Mueller, who left for King George Sound ¶ by last month's mail steamer to restore there his very weakened health by a change of a...
                                                                                • Ferdinand von Mueller to Julius Haast, 1867-10-09.
                                                                                  King George Sound, ¶ 9/10/67. ¶ ¶ I have proceeded to this quiet place for one month, dear friend, to recuperate if possible. Here I can allow myself complete rest, and the vegetation, which has the ...
                                                                                  • Wilhelm Sonder to Ferdinand Krauss, 1867-11-12.
                                                                                    Hamburg, 12 November 1867 ¶ Dear Professor, ¶ With ¶ ¶ best ¶ ¶ thanks for your letter from last month, which I immediately reported to Dr Mueller. ¶ Letter not found. ¶ ¶ I can now inform you that...
                                                                                    • Ferdinand von Mueller to August Petermann, 1867-11-27.
                                                                                      Melbourne Botanic Garden, ¶ 27 November 1867. ¶ ¶ I do not know, esteemed Professor, if a publication about McIntyre's expedition, showing about 5 degrees of further travels and quite a few new geogr...
                                                                                      • Ferdinand Krauss to Eduard von Schmidlin, 1867-12-07.
                                                                                        Royal Administration, ¶ ¶ I have the honour to submit a report on the consignments transmitted to the Royal Natural History Museum by Dr Ferd. Mueller, Director of the zoological and botanic Gardens ...
                                                                                        • Wilhelm Sonder to Ferdinand Krauss, 1867-12-08.
                                                                                          Hamburg, 8 December 1867. ¶ Dear Professor, ¶ ¶ I was surprised, that you were still not in possession of the case on the 1st inst., as I had sent it by rail back on the 15 November and at the end of...
                                                                                          • Ludwig von Golther to Karl I, King of Württemberg, 1867-12-13.
                                                                                            To the King ¶ Report of the Minister ¶ of Church and Educational Affairs ¶ respecting gifts for the Natural History Cabinet ¶ Stuttgart, 13 December 1867....
                                                                                            • August von Egloffstein to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1867-12-20.
                                                                                              ¶ After His Majesty, the King of Württemberg, on this day deigned to confer the Knight's Cross of His Highness's Order of the Württemberg Crown on the Director of the Botanic and Zoological Gardens i...
                                                                                              • Ludwig von Golther to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1867-12-23.
                                                                                                23 December 1867 ¶ . ¶ 2./ Letter from His Excellency the Minister ¶ to Dr Ferdinand ¶ Mueller ¶ , Esq., ¶ Director of the botanic & zoological Gardens ¶ in ¶ Melbourne...
                                                                                                • Eduard von Schmidlin, Ferdinand Krauss and Oscar Fraas to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1867-12-30.
                                                                                                  Sir, ¶ ¶ We have the honour to express our most sincere thanks also on our part for several consignments of valuable donations of Australian natural history objects kindly presented to the Royal Natu...
                                                                                                  • Ferdinand von Mueller to Georg Wittstein, 1868-??-??.
                                                                                                    With regard to the chemical analysis of the ¶ Gastrolobium bilobum ¶ carried out by Mr H. F ¶ raas ¶ , ¶ I really must oppose his conclusion that this plant should be considered not at all toxic. ¶...
                                                                                                    • 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 ...
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