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Ferdinand von Mueller

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  • Ferdinand von Mueller to Carl Mücke, 1869-08-24.
    ¶ Your beautiful researches about the disastrous corn-fungi ¶ are important in the highest degree, and you might well be proud of your successes, which will only be completely recognised in after ti...
    • Ferdinand von Mueller to James Grant, 1869-08-25.
      Melbourne bot. Garden, ¶ 25/8/69 ¶ Sir ¶ ¶ In compliance with your instructions ¶ Instructions not found. ¶ ¶ I have the honor of submitting to you a return of the amounts, which became due in the b...
      • Ferdinand von Mueller to Edmund FitzGibbon, 1869-08-26.
        26/8/69. ¶ ¶ Allow me to mention to you, dear Mr Fitzgibbon, that the one side of the fence of the road in the vicinity of the Bathing-House is not yet completed, and that in consequence the cattle a...
        • Ferdinand von Mueller to Redmond Barry, 1869-08-28.
          28/8/69 ¶ ¶ Since I saw you, dear Sir Redmond, I have put several vegetable substances into order for the new industrial museum, ¶ Barry had requested items for display in R. Barry to M, 3 August 186...
          • Ferdinand von Mueller to Frederick Barlee, 1869-08-29.
            Melbourne bot Garden ¶ 29./8/69 ¶ Private. ¶ I regret very much, dear Mr Barlee, that I am finally obliged to relinquish my favorite project of visiting West Australia this autumn. It was impossible f...
            • Edmund FitzGibbon to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1869-08-30.
              My dear Dr Mueller ¶ ¶ I will mention the subject of your note ¶ to the Health Committee of the City Council on Wednesday but I anticipate their answer to be that the obligation of fencing land fron...
              • Ferdinand von Mueller to James Grant, 1869-08-31.
                Melbourne bot. Garden ¶ 31/8/69. ¶ Sir ¶ ¶ I have the honor to solicit, that you will be pleased to give authority, that the sums under authority for the purchase of plants together with so much of t...
                • Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1869-09-??.
                  ¶ I do not find it very difficult to raise ferns from spores. I raised many; but the spores require to be fresh and ripe. However I raised ferns from specimens, 20 years old in the herbarium. ¶ ¶ Th...
                  • Frederick McCoy to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1869-09-01.
                    N. M. ¶ 1/9/69 ¶ My dear Dr Von Müeller ¶ ¶ The specimens you sent to me from the Colonial Secretary, Western Australia are chalcedony and probably come from cavities in Basalt or other Trap Rocks —...
                    • Ferdinand von Mueller to Redmond Barry, 1869-09-02.
                      2/9/69. ¶ ¶ I intend, dear Sir Redmond, to place, as you suggest, a series of suggestions before the trustees of the Library in reference to the formation of the industrial vegetable section in the n...
                      • William Odgers to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1869-09-03.
                        Chief Secretary's Office ¶ Melbourne 3rd September 1869. ¶ Sir ¶ ¶ With reference to your letter of 11th August ¶ I have the honor to request by direction of the Chief Secretary that you will endeav...
                        • Ferdinand von Mueller to Otto Lindberg, 1869-09-06.
                          Melbourne, Botanic Gardens, ¶ 6 September 1869. ¶ ¶ It is my pleasant duty, very esteemed colleague, to acknowledge the receipt of the wonderful collection of mosses and Arctic cotyledonous plants yo...
                          • Ferdinand von Mueller to George Bentham, 1869-09-06.
                            6/9/69 ¶ ¶ I received back the Verbenaceae & Myoporinae quite safely, dear Mr Bentham. The close examination of their ovules seems to have given unexpected important results. ¶ ¶ Lately I have got a...
                            • Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1869-09-06.
                              6/9/69 ¶ ¶ Let me express my best thanks, dear Dr Hooker, for the liberal sending of Wight's & Falconer's ¶ plants, all of great utility to me for references, whenever the occasions arise. I enclose...
                              • Ferdinand von Mueller to August Petermann, 1869-09-06.
                                ¶ I am considering to have Mr Forrest ¶ John Forrest. ¶ ¶ make an attempt during the cooler season of the year ¶ ¶ 1870 ¶ ¶ (from March to September) ¶ ¶ to penetrate with a light party from the ...
                                • Ferdinand von Mueller to Frederick Barlee, 1869-09-07.
                                  ¶ The ladies of the Leichhardt Search Committee held a meeting today, and begged of me to convey to the Government of Western Australia their grateful appreciation of the aid and sympathy which promp...
                                  • William Adamson to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1869-09-09.
                                    71 COLLINS ST WEST. ¶ MELBOURNE ¶ 9 Septr ¶ 18 ¶ 69 ¶ Dr Von Mueller ¶ Bought of William Adamson. ¶ Wholesale & Retail Seedsman....
                                    • Ferdinand von Mueller to William Odgers, 1869-09-09.
                                      Melbourne botanic Garden, ¶ 9/9/69 ¶ Sir ¶ ¶ I have the honor of transmitting to you herewith 20lb (twenty pounds) of seeds of Eucalyptus Globulus (the Blue Gumtree), that being the whole quantity at...
                                      • Ferdinand von Mueller to Redmond Barry, 1869-09-10.
                                        Melbourne botanic Garden, ¶ 10/9/69. ¶ ¶ Since some time ago, dear Sir Redmond, I intended to have written to you fully on the requirements of the phytological branch of the industrial Museum, but my...
                                        • Joseph Hooker to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1869-09-10.
                                          Septr 10/69 ¶ My dear Mueller ¶ ¶ The [Patentous] and Prodigious Todea arrived yesterday in splendid condition with hundreds of young pink & white fronds pushing through the saw dust — it is a thing ...
                                          • Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1869-09-11.
                                            11/9/69 ¶ ¶ By this post, dear Dr Hooker, I beg to send again 69 select species of seeds. Some you had not before. Those, you not require, will doubtless be of use to the Canary Islands, Madeira, or ...
                                            • Ferdinand von Mueller to Edmund FitzGibbon, 1869-09-11.
                                              Melbourne bot. Garden ¶ 11/9/69. ¶ ¶ Allow me, dear Mr Fitzgibbon, to draw the attention of the City Council to the desirability of some improvements being effected in the Yarra ground near the bridg...
                                              • Ferdinand von Mueller to James Grant, 1869-09-19.
                                                Melbourne, botanic Garden, ¶ 19 Sept. 1869. ¶ Sir ¶ ¶ In compliance with your request ¶ Request letter not found.This letterwouldhave beendealt withbyJames McKean, who replaced Grant on 20 September ...
                                                • Eugene Lissignol to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1869-09-21.
                                                  Acclimatisation Society's Office, ¶ 30 SWANSTON STREET, ¶ Melbourne, ¶ September 21st ¶ 186 ¶ 9. ¶ To the Trustees of the Royal Park Melbourne ¶ Gentlemen,...
                                                  • Ferdinand von Mueller to Edmund FitzGibbon, 1869-09-22.
                                                    Melbourne botan Garden, ¶ 22/9/69 ¶ Dear Mr Fitzgibbon. ¶ ¶ To day I heard indirectly but certainly not authentically, that it was under contemplation to remove one of the two men, employed under my ...
                                                    • Ferdinand von Mueller to Clement Hodgkinson, 1869-09-24.
                                                      Melbourne Botan Garden ¶ 24/9 69 ¶ Sir ¶ ¶ I have the honor to inform you by direction of the Trustees of the Royal Park that at their meeting on the 21st inst the letter from the Townclerk to yourse...
                                                      • Ferdinand von Mueller to Edmund FitzGibbon, 1869-09-24.
                                                        Melbourne Botanic Garden ¶ 24/9/69 ¶ Dear Sir, ¶ ¶ I had the honor of submitting your recent letter addressed to Clem. Hodgkinson Esqr. to a meeting of the trustees of the Royal Park, held on the 21s...
                                                        • Ferdinand von Mueller to Samuel Bindon, 1869-09-25.
                                                          Melbourne Botanical Gardens, ¶ 25th Sept., 1869. ¶ I feel very glad, dear Mr Bindon, to obtain the delicate flower photograms which you have just sent me, and will forward them to the photological sec...
                                                          • Ferdinand von Mueller to the Editor of the Argus, 1869-09-27.
                                                            TO THE EDITOR OF THE ARGUS. ¶ Sir, — ¶ ¶ In ¶ The Argus ¶ of this day complaints are not unjustly raised on account of the want of an extensive display of spring flowers in the Botanic gardens. Wit...
                                                            • Ferdinand von Mueller to John MacPherson, 1869-09-29.
                                                              Melbourne botan Garden, ¶ 29. Sept. 1869. ¶ Sir ¶ ¶ Being aware, that it is intended to entrust the Gardener Mr W. Fergusen ¶ William Ferguson. ¶ ¶ with administrative duties in the botanic Garden, ...
                                                              • Ferdinand von Mueller to Carl Mücke, 1869-09-29.
                                                                ¶ I owe you my sincerest thanks for the joy you have caused me by forwarding a reprint of your eloquent lecture on "A. von Humboldt." ¶ I have never seen a finer representation of the relation of Hu...
                                                                • George Bentham to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1869-09-30.
                                                                  25. WILTON PLACE. S.W. ¶ Sept 30/69 ¶ My dear Sir ¶ ¶ After three months absence I am now again at work and am advancing on Labiatae. I found on my return several of your letters for which I have to ...
                                                                  • Ferdinand von Mueller to Carl Mücke, 1869-10-??.
                                                                    ¶ ¶ It is a joyful thought to me that you have formed the idea to spend the evening of your active life in this colony, where, I trust, if I should not die soon, to meet you often. May this evening ...
                                                                    • Ferdinand von Mueller to Jacques Coste, 1869-10-??.
                                                                      [Mr. Coste adds ¶ The previous paragraph reported Coste's remarks on specimens of salmon raised in Norwegian fish farms. ¶ that it follows from the documents he has recently received from Mr Von Muel...
                                                                      • Ferdinand von Mueller to a friend in Sydney, 1869-10-??.
                                                                        ¶ Please thank the Evening News and other Sydney papers for their kind encouragement to my last appeal in the interest of poor Leichhardt. I hope to arrange that Mr. Forest ¶ shall take the field ag...
                                                                        • Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1869-10-05.
                                                                          Melbourne bot Garden ¶ 5/10/69 ¶ ¶ I am very glad, dear Dr Hooker, to have the opportunity of introducing to you my excellent friend Mons. A. Thozet, F. LS., of Queensland. This Gentleman will be kno...
                                                                          • Ferdinand von Mueller to August Petermann, 1869-10-09.
                                                                            9 October 1869. ¶ ¶ Herewith, esteemed Professor, I am sending you the first part of Mr Forrest's travel diary; ¶ Presumably what Petermann printed as J. Forrest (1870). ¶ ¶ the other half has not b...
                                                                            • Ferdinand von Mueller to Paul Ascherson, 1869-10-10.
                                                                              Would it not be very interesting if a short essay appeared every year in one of our botanical journals, which showed us exactly which special events in the botanical world, journeys etc., happened jus...
                                                                              • Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1869-10-10.
                                                                                10/10/69 ¶ ¶ Let me thank you, dear Dr Hooker, for sending me a copy of your valuable report. ¶ Your toil during the year must have been a great one with all your extrawork, and you will sympathize ...
                                                                                • Ferdinand von Mueller to John MacPherson, 1869-10-10.
                                                                                  ¶ [Reports relative to applicn of Govt of Otago for a supply of plants & shrubs from Botanic gardens of Victoria] ¶ See also M to J. MacPherson, 5 March 1870(in this edition as 70-03-05a)....
                                                                                  • Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1869-10-14.
                                                                                    14/10/69 ¶ ¶ Would it be possible, dear Dr Hooker, that I could be obliged with a box ful of roots of Veratrum viride? Perhaps Prof Asa Gray would help in the matter. ¶ This plant in its marvellous ...
                                                                                    • Joseph Henry to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1869-10-25.
                                                                                      Smithsonian Institution ¶ Washington Oct. 25 1869 ¶ Dear Sir: ¶ ¶ We have for several years been desirous of finding some Institution or individual in Australia willing to receive the packages of Smi...
                                                                                      • Ferdinand von Mueller to John MacPherson, 1869-10-25.
                                                                                        ¶ [asking to be paid the £150 ¶ ¶ expended by him on forwarding the Victorian Dromedaries ¶ ¶ to ¶ ¶ Queensland] ¶ Reimbursement had previously been requested in M to J. McCulloch,15 August 1868,M...
                                                                                        • Ferdinand von Mueller to Prospero Ramel, 1869-11-??.
                                                                                          [M. Ramel announces that the presence of salmon is now assured in Tasmania, according to a letter that he has just received from Mr F. Von Mueller and from the articles published in the Melbourne news...
                                                                                          • Lewis Bernays to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1869-11-??.
                                                                                            [ ¶ Brisbane, ¶ July 5 ¶ : ¶ Phajus Bernaysii ¶ . — In your issue of March 15 last I observe a notice of the Phajus which I was fortunate enough to discover, but your information as to its sponsor b...
                                                                                            • Ferdinand von Mueller to James McKean, 1869-11-??.
                                                                                              Melbourne Botanical Gardens, ¶ November, ¶ 1869. ¶ Sir, ¶ ¶ Since several years I have urged in my writings, and by other means, the necessity for the formation of a phytologic collection to serve i...
                                                                                              • James McKean to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1869-11-01.
                                                                                                Office of Lands & Survey ¶ Melbourne, 1st Nov. ¶ ¶ 1869 ¶ Sir, ¶ ¶ I beg to inform you that I have instructed Mr. Ferguson ¶ William Ferguson. ¶ ¶ to call upon you for the purpose of inspecting the...
                                                                                                • W. Lockhart Morton to the Editor of the Argus, 1869-11-04.
                                                                                                  Sir,— ¶ ¶ In reading the report of what took place in the Assembly lately in relation to Dr. Mueller and the Botanical gardens, I felt surprise that a man who has done so much for Victoria should be ...
                                                                                                  • Joseph Hooker to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1869-11-05.
                                                                                                    Nov 5 /69 ¶ Dear Mueller ¶ ¶ The cases ex Norfolk have this moment arrived. ¶ In gt ¶ haste ¶ ¶ Yrs...
                                                                                                    • Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1869-11-06.
                                                                                                      6/11/69 ¶ ¶ I feel very grateful to you, dear Dr Hooker, for your attentive kindness in causing the Bambusaceae and Bromeliaceae to be forwarded by the Essex. ¶ They will be a great boon. It is all ...
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