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Ferdinand von Mueller

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Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1869-05-26.
26/5/69 ¶ ¶ The Kent, dear Dr Hooker, which brings this letter, brings you also the huge Todea, desired by you. It is fresh from mount macedon, ¶ and the creature is one of the largest I ever saw. I...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Frederick Standish, 1869-05-28.
Melbourne bot Garden ¶ 28/5/69 ¶ ¶ I cannot sufficiently thank you, dear Capt. Standish, for the vigorous and circumspect arrangements, which were made to protect the building, in which I reside, aga...
Frederick McCoy to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1869-05-28.
N. M. ¶ 28/5/69 ¶ My dear Dr Von Mueller, ¶ ¶ Many thanks for the portion of the skin of the adult Casuarius & I will not fail to select the less common birds you desire in exchange in part. I do no...
Ferdinand von Mueller to the Sale Borough Council, 1869-05-31.
¶ [From Dr. ¶ Von ¶ ¶ Mueller ¶ , as to supplying plants for the Botanical Gardens, Sale (31st May), and requesting that some person be authorised to call on him for the same. Cr. E ¶ nglish ¶ mo...
Philip Sclater to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1869-06-??.
¶ [Dr. von ¶ Mueller ¶ read an extract from a letter of Mr. Sclater, secretary to the Zoological Society of London, giving notice of his having shipped, per Essex, a pair of new pheasants for the A...
Ferdinand von Mueller to James Grant, 1869-06-03.
Melbourne bot. Garden, ¶ 3/6/69 ¶ Sir ¶ ¶ It having been finally decided by yourself, that the northern ground of the botanic Garden should be alienated from this establishment and be transferred to ...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Robert Brough Smyth, 1869-06-04.
Melbourne Botan. Garden ¶ 4/6/69 ¶ It is my pleasurable duty, dear Mr. Smyth, to convey to you the best thanks of the trustees of the Royal Park for your goodness of preparing such a beautiful plan of...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1869-06-04.
4/6/69 ¶ ¶ A few days ago, dear Dr Hooker, I have sent you a large Todea. ¶ It required 2 bullock teams and slades ¶ to be dragged out of the back gullies of Mt Macedon, ¶ 40 miles from here. It i...
Ferdinand von Mueller to William Macarthur, 1869-06-06.
Melb. bot Garden ¶ 6/6/69. ¶ ¶ It affords me very much pleasure, dear Sir William, to be able to send you ¶ all ¶ the plants, which you desire. I have taken them out of pots, and packed them horizo...
George Bentham to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1869-06-09.
25, WILTON PLACE. S.W. ¶ June 9 /69 ¶ My dear Sir ¶ ¶ Since I last wrote two boxes have come from you one (I believe per Somersetshire) some little time since and the other per Wellesley just arrived...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Henry C. Manners-Sutton, 1869-06-11.
Melbourne botan. Garden, ¶ 11/6/69 ¶ Sir ¶ ¶ I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of five new fascicles of Prof Miquels Annales, ¶ descriptive of Indian plants, ¶ which work his Excellency h...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Richard Horne, 1869-06-11.
Melbourne bot. Garden 11/6/69. ¶ ¶ I cannot forego the pleasure, dear Mr Horne, to bid you at least by a few lines my best farewell, and to express to you at the eve of your departure from these shor...
Ferdinand von Mueller to [Redmond Barry], 1869-06-12.
¶ [Relative to presentation of plants to the University]...
Edward Symonds to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1869-06-12.
Treasury Melbourne ¶ 12 June 1869 ¶ ¶ Sir ¶ ¶ I have the honor to refer to the proposal made by you at a recent interview to go on with the earthworks at the Botanic Gardens at your own expense to t...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Edmund FitzGibbon, 1869-06-13.
Melbourne bot. Garden ¶ 13/6/69. ¶ Sir ¶ ¶ I have the honor to solicit, that the City Council will be pleased to allow the large lot of Basalt-boulders, stored up by labor of my Department when the J...
Ferdinand von Mueller to James Grant, 1869-06-14.
Melbourne, bot. Garden ¶ 14/6/69. ¶ Sir ¶ ¶ A wish having been recently on some occasion expressed, that a small volume descriptive of the plants of Victoria might be issued, I have the honor to enqu...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Richard Kippist, 1869-06-16.
16/6/69 ¶ ¶ I have packed up, dear Mr. Kippist, this day all the fascicles & plates of the fragmenta, still available, to complete your set, as far as possible. ¶ ¶ The work will soon be a ¶ rare o...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1869-06-16.
16/6/69 ¶ ¶ I am much obliged, dear Dr Hooker, for the despatch of the Sarracenias & Nepenthes by the Swiftsure. ¶ I will hope for the best. ¶ ¶ Should there be at any time in your houses any ¶ of...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Julius Haast, 1869-06-16.
Melbourne Botanic Garden, ¶ 16 June 1869. ¶ ¶ I owe you a reply, dear friend, for your last kind letter. ¶ I recently visited your father-in-law ¶ briefly in his office and he seems to be happy and...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Asa Gray, 1869-06-17.
17/6/69 ¶ ¶ I have to thank you, dear Prof. Asa Gray, for the kind transmission of the very valuable document, ¶ which you, with you usual skill, have furnished on the plants of our friends Brewer a...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1869-06-17.
17/6/69 ¶ ¶ By the Yorkshire, dear Dr Hooker, I have sent you two plants of Xanthorrhoea Australis, not very large, which I had lifted this week. ¶ The nearest sandy heath ground, where I could conv...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Edmund FitzGibbon, 1869-06-18.
18/6/69 ¶ ¶ Not having heard of you, dear Mr Fitzgibbon, allow me to ask, whether the stones are all safe. ¶ ¶ If not, I must make an other effort to secure them all. Really I spent too much labor o...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Otto Lindberg, 1869-06-19.
Melbourne bot Garden ¶ 19/6/69 ¶ ¶ I regret very much, dear Prof. Lindberg, that as yet I have been unable to send you the copy of the Flora Tasmanica. ¶ I have it ready for some time, but the extre...
Ferdinand von Mueller to August Petermann, 1869-06-20.
20/6/69. ¶ ¶ Allow me to express my best wishes to you, esteemed Professor, at your so ¶ well-earned ¶ elevation to Knight of the Order of the Iron Crown, ¶ a distinction that will be worn so wort...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1869-06-20.
20/6/69 ¶ ¶ By the Yorkshire, dear Dr Hooker, I have sent you two small Xanthorrhoeas (X. australis) in a close case. I could have sent larger ones, but as there is some doubt about them living, it i...
August Petermann to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1869-06-21.
¶ 21 June 1869. ¶ Very esteemed Patron and friend, ¶ ¶ It is a cause for as much deep amazement as of self-accusation for me, that after my inexcusably long silence you are still capable of showing ...
Edmund FitzGibbon to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1869-06-25.
25th June 1869 ¶ My dear Dr Von Mueller, ¶ ¶ I have the pleasure to inform you that at the meeting of the Council of the City of Melbourne on Monday last a report from the Health Committee "informing...
Frederick McCoy to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1869-06-25.
N. M. ¶ 25/6/69 ¶ My dear Dr Von Mueller ¶ ¶ I send herewith a parcel containing two dozen Victorian Birds, not found near Melbourne, & one, the red-capped Pomatorhinus, only described a few years a...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Edmund FitzGibbon, 1869-06-29.
Melbourne botan Garden, ¶ 29/6/69 ¶ ¶ Let me express my best thanks, dear Mr Fitzgibbon, to yourself and the Gentlemen of the City Council, for kindly allowing me to retain the basalt-boulders, which...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Eugene Lissignol, 1869-06-29.
Melbourne, ¶ 29th June 1869 ¶ Sir ¶ ¶ I have the honor to inform you that at a meeting of the trustees of the Royal Park, held this day, the trustees approved of the acceptance of the tender of J. ¶ ...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Clement Hodgkinson, 1869-06-30.
30/6/69 ¶ ¶ Yesterday, dear Mr Hodgkinson, I forgot to mention or rather to remind you, that Ferryman Brandon pays only ten pounds (formerly I think fifty pounds) for his license. ¶ Hence it appears...
Ferdinand von Mueller to James Calvert, 1869-07-??.
¶ You will be glad to learn that the Colonial Secretary of Western Australia ¶ informs me by last mail that the ¶ Leichhardt ¶ party ¶ was in every respect in excellent order and spirit when last...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Antoine Hesse, 1869-07-??.
[M. Hesse sends a new shipment of Eucalyptus seeds and various Australian plants despatched by Mr Ferd. Von Mueller.]...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Frederick Barlee, 1869-07-??.
¶ [In reply he reports "that the value of jarrah (Eucalyptus) seeds would be from 15s. to 25s. per lb., perhaps more, when once the value of this important tree was properly and generally understood ...
Ferdinand von Mueller to the Editor of the Argus, 1869-07-??.
¶ [We ¶ ¶ are requested by Dr. ¶ ¶ Von ¶ ¶ Mueller ¶ ¶ to state that the plants ¶ ¶ mentioned by the Committee of the United Friendly Societies, at their interview with the Minister of Lands on ...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Euphemia Henderson, 1869-07-06.
6/7/69 ¶ ¶ It is very kind of you, dear Miss Henderson, to bear my birthday in such friendly remembrance. Let me thank you for all your good wishes, the highest of which are to be worthy of the estee...
Joseph Hooker to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1869-07-09.
July 9/69 ¶ My dear Müller ¶ ¶ I write in haste by this mail, & chiefly to say that your assistant Theodore ¶ called 2 days ago on his way to Germany, having had his money stolen from him in Liverpo...
William Odgers to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1869-07-09.
Chief Secretary's Office ¶ Melbourne 9th July 1869. ¶ Sir, ¶ ¶ Herewith I beg to forward copies of Major Beddome's Works on Timber Trees ¶ and Rare Plants ¶ to be added to those previously forwarde...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Gordon Gairdner, 1869-07-10.
Covenant for the restoration of the Insignia of a Companion of The Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George. ¶ The text of the covenant, in an unknown hand, was sent to M as an enclo...
Joseph Hooker to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1869-07-11.
Kew July 11 /69 ¶ My dear Mueller ¶ ¶ Many thanks for yours of 19/5/69 this moment received & for the promise of the King of Todeas ¶ — what a figure it will cut at Kew! I saw 2 superb ones at St Pe...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Henry Manners-Sutton, 1869-07-13.
Melbourne botan. Garden, ¶ 13/7/69 ¶ Sir Henry. ¶ ¶ In accordance with your Excellency's kind permission I beg to forward two letters of grateful acknowledgement of the Royal honor, which her Majesty...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Edmund FitzGibbon, 1869-07-13.
13/7/69 ¶ ¶ Allow me to mention to you, dear Mr Fitzgibbon, that the man, who has rented the toll at the St. Kilda road keeps fowl, and that these have already destroyed two young avenue trees plante...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Earl Granville, 1869-07-13.
¶ Melbourne botanic Garden, ¶ 13 July 1869. ¶ My Lord. ¶ ¶ The transmission of a despatch from your Lordship's department, conveying to me by last mail the grant of the dignity of a Companion of the...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Gordon Gairdner, 1869-07-13.
Melbourne botan. Garden, ¶ 13/7/69 ¶ See G. Gairdner to M, 26 April 1869.A date stamp indicates thatM’sletter was registered in the Colonial Office on 7 September 1869. The letter was forwarded by the...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1869-07-13.
13/7/69 ¶ ¶ On an enclosed page, ¶ Page not found. ¶ ¶ dear Dr Hooker, I have mentioned the names of some of the plants from Lord Howe's Island, which Mr Ch. Moore recently collected there, and of w...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Testimonial, 1869-07-15.
Melbourne Botanic Garden. ¶ July 15th 1869 ¶ ¶ It affords me much pleasure to testify, that Mr G. Christian Hoffmann has had charge of the chemical and technological laboratory of my department, ever...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1869-07-15.
15/7/69 ¶ ¶ The Sarracenias, sent by you, dear Dr Hooker, ¶ had completely damped off, during the voyage. Nevertheless I am indebted for your good intentions. Seeds of them & of Dionaea would give t...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1869-07-15.
15/7/69 ¶ ¶ I appreciate fully, my dear Dr Hooker, all the interest you have unknowingly to me taken in my welfare, and the very generous efforts you made in promoting my social position. I have but ...
Ferdinand von Mueller to August Petermann, 1869-07-17.
17 July 1869. ¶ ¶ From the first Minister of Western Australia, the honourable F. Barlee, I have received the news ¶ ¶ by ¶ ¶ this month's mail ¶ ¶ that the ¶ ¶ small ¶ ¶ group commanded by Mr F...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Decaisne, 1869-07-17.
Melbourne bot Garden ¶ 17/7/69. ¶ ¶ I have with much gratitude to acknowledge, dear Prof Decaisne, your great favor in sending such a ¶ rich ¶ collection of seeds from the garden of the Museum. I n...

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