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George Bentham to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1861-11-16.
Kew London W ¶ Nov 16/61 ¶ My dear Sir ¶ ¶ Since I last wrote to you I have been working up the Australian Hibbertieae which it was necessary to do in order to decide for our Genera on your proposed ...
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 Théodore Caruel, 1873-04-21.
Melbourne 21 April 1873. ¶ … ¶ ¶ I have found that the genus ¶ Donatia ¶ is a true Stylidiacea, close to the genus ¶ Forstera ¶ (to which the older name ¶ Phyllachne ¶ should be restored) from...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1873-04-21.
Melbourne bot Garden ¶ 21/4/73 ¶ ¶ When recently examining some Stylideae, dear Dr Hooker, I had occasion to confirm your supposition beyond any doubt, that Donatia must be placed in that order. ¶ I...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Asa Gray, 1873-04-22.
Melbourne bot Garden ¶ 22/4/73 ¶ ¶ Many years ago, dear Dr. Gray, our late friend Dr Steetz wrote to me, ¶ that it was always a festival-day to him when a letter arrived from you; and really so is i...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Alphonse de Candolle, 1873-05-20.
Melbourne Botanic Garden, ¶ 20 May 1872. ¶ ¶ It has long been my intention, noble Sir, to write to you, but conditions in my institute have been so unfavourable for 2 or 3 years, that much that was n...
Ferdinand von Mueller to George Bentham, 1873-11-05.
Melbourne ¶ 5/11/73 ¶ ¶ I was gratified at the receipt of the proof pages, dear Mr Bentham, concerning the rest of the Orchideae and Irideae, ¶ and I trust that your strength & spirit will remain un...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Alphonse de Candolle, 1882-09-10.
10/9/82. ¶ ¶ My best thanks are due to you, honored and venerable Sir, that you so obligingly inquired into the claims of Vahea. I hope, that I have not been indiscrete in giving publicity to that po...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Asa Gray, 1884-02-20.
20/2/84. ¶ ¶ Let me thank you, dear Prof. Gray, for your lucid remarks on D.C's last publication concerning nomenclature. ¶ I had written some notes for the bot. Centralblatt ¶ soon after receiving...
Ferdinand von Mueller to William Thiselton-Dyer, 1884-02-22.
Drouin, ¶ 22/2/84 ¶ ¶ This day, dear Mr Dyer, I received your note conveying the wish of reobtaining a living plant of Ophioglossum pendulum. ¶ At once I rendered your desire known to Mr Pink, ¶ w...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Maurice Holtze, 1885-09-16.
16 September 1885. ¶ ¶ With today's transmission, dear Mr Holtze, you have made me very happy. It is a long time since I received so many to me interesting plants from any part of Australia. The last...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Otto Tepper, 1886-12-13.
13/12/86. ¶ ¶ This evening, dear Mr Tepper, your important consignment of plants of Kangaroo Island ¶ arrived. The pretty ¶ Candollea (Stylidium) ¶ shall be dedicated to you. ¶ 18 is ¶ Lobelia r...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Otto Tepper, 1886-12-23.
23/12/86 ¶ ¶ It seems best to me, esteemed Mr Tepper, that the description of your pretty ¶ Candollea ¶ should still be published ¶ in this year ¶ , so that no one else otherwise describes the spe...
Ferdinand von Mueller to William Thiselton-Dyer, 1886-12-25.
Christmasday ¶ 1886. ¶ Though this letter can only reach you so long after the chronologic anniversary, dear Mr Dyer, yet I must not let this festive time pass without bidding you all at Kew a happy n...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Otto Tepper, 1887-02-04.
4/2/87 ¶ ¶ Hurriedly only the comment, dear Mr Tepper, that following your clear explanation ¶ I will investigate both the ¶ Thysanotus ¶ species closely from the large material of this genus that...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Otto Tepper, 1887-03-06.
6/3/87 ¶ ¶ The best advice that I can give you concerning the Linnean Society, dear Mr Tepper, is ¶ this ¶ , to arrange for an acquaintance in London to receive the publications, so that he then imm...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Adolf Engler, 1887-12-25.
Christmas, ¶ 1887 ¶ ¶ It gives me pleasure, esteemed Professor, to send you with this post specimens of such Australian and New Zealand ¶ Ranunculus ¶ species, as far as such here can still be give...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Maurice Holtze, 1888-??-??.
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Ferdinand von Mueller to Adolf Engler, 1888-08-16.
16/8/88. ¶ ¶ Your former scholar just wrote to me from Oxford, ¶ noble friend, that the MS of the Candolleaceae was sent to you, but remarked that it would be submitted to the compiler of the Dillen...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Maurice Holtze, 1888-10-??.
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Ferdinand von Mueller to Adolf Engler, 1888-10-11.
11/10/88 ¶ ¶ Today, esteemed Professor, a packet of dried plants goes off to you. There is also something with it for the museum department that is under the care of your highly renowned colleague Go...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Alphonse de Candolle, 1891-06-30.
30/6/91. ¶ ¶ A birthday's present, just received this day, ¶ honored and venerable friend, which I send on to you, as it contains 5 W.A. Candolleas; these may gratify also your son and grandson. ¶ A...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Adolf Engler, 1892-06-28.
28/6/92. ¶ ¶ Through your last letter, ¶ highly esteemed Professor, it has become possible for me to explain the misplacement of the first part of the consignment of Hawaiian plants. Just as you exp...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Isaac Tyson, 1896-04-04.
4/4/96. ¶ ¶ Among the plants, just received from you, dear Mr Tyson, is N. 1 an Acacia in abnormal (monstrous) flowering state, — the plant found by your brother ¶ on the stony Hills. I am glad, tha...