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Ferdinand von Mueller to Charles Ligar, 1862-11-29.
Melbourne botanic Garden ¶ 29/11/62. ¶ Sir ¶ ¶ In accordance with the wish of the honorable the President of the Board of Land & Works I have the honor of submitting my opinion on the proposal made b...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Filippo Parlatore, 1865-11-25.
Melbourne Botanic Garden ¶ 25/11/65 ¶ Dear Sir, ¶ ¶ You have placed me under profound obligations by your generosity, by which you have esteemed the feeble efforts I have made on behalf of the scient...
Ferdinand von Mueller to August Petermann, 1865-11-26.
26 November 1865. ¶ ¶ This mail, dear Professor, must not leave without bringing you a few words on the progress of the search for Leichhardt. Everything promises good success, in spite of the terrib...
Ferdinand von Mueller to James McCulloch, 1865-11-30.
Melbourne bot. Garden, ¶ 30/11/65 ¶ Sir ¶ ¶ I have the honor to draw your favorable consideration to the circumstance, that the time has arrived, when with advantage experiments on the culture of the...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Filippo Parlatore, 1866-08-27.
Botanic Garden, Melbourne ¶ 27 August 1866 ¶ Dear Sir, ¶ ¶ Please accept my sincere thanks for your precious donations that I have recently received through your Consul, Chevalier Biagi. I admire you...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1866-11-27.
27/11/66 ¶ ¶ My extraduties, dear Dr Hooker, connected with the Intercolonial Exhibition ¶ have been for many weeks past so heavy, that I could find no leisure for anything, & hence I can now, at th...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Thomas Anderson, 1866-11-28.
28/11/66 ¶ Dear Doctor ¶ ¶ I am indebted to you for a noble collection of cryptogamous plants received by last mail & exceedingly valuable to my Museum, where but little of those groups of plants fro...
Ferdinand von Mueller to George Grey, 1867-03-01.
Melbourne botanic Garden 1/3/67 ¶ ¶ Herewith, dear Sir George, I beg to offer you a sufficiency of Cinchona seeds for several hundred plants. If raised under glass, potted off and hardened to the air...
Ferdinand von Mueller to James McCulloch, 1867-03-23.
Melbourne, Botan. Garden, ¶ 23/3/67 ¶ Sir ¶ ¶ I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of the documents kindly sent by you, and referring to the Cinchona-plantations of India. They will be to me a...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Thomas Anderson, 1867-03-25.
25/3/67 ¶ Dear Prof Anderson. ¶ ¶ I have sent you a Case full of Araucaria by this months mail, all fine strong plants. I only trust the people will not toss them about. At the whole I am very dishea...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Thomas Anderson, 1867-05-24.
Queensbirth day 1867. ¶ ¶ By this mail, dear Dr Anderson, you will receive 17 species of seeds. I have added a parcel for Mr Tyesmann, ¶ thinking that you can manage to send it off, for which friend...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Thomas Anderson, 1867-05-30.
30/5/67 ¶ ¶ This day, dear Prof Anderson, I have shipped to you [pr] ¶ "Medusa" a case [fu]ll of strong plants [of] Araucaria ex[ce]lsa free of freight [by the] kindness of the [Ca]ptain. Pray retur...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Parliamentary return, 1867-07-08.
1. Return of total number of plants and seeds supplied from the Melbourne Botanic Gardens to public Institutions in Victoria from 1858 to 1867. ¶ Return of the names of public Institutions in Victoria...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Thomas Anderson, 1867-07-18.
18/7/67 ¶ My dear Professor ¶ ¶ By the Underley ¶ I have sent you a case with strong Araucarias. Should they safely arrive place a few into a case you may send to Buitenzorg, ¶ as I am rather in Mr...
Ferdinand von Mueller to John Moore, 1867-09-21.
Queenscliff 21/9/67 ¶ Sir ¶ ¶ I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of a copy of Mr M'Ivors notes on the cultivation of Cinchonae, which book you have been so good to send to my office & for wh...
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...
Joseph Hooker to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1869-12-08.
Kew Decr 8 /69 ¶ My dear Mueller ¶ ¶ I have your's asking for ¶ Veratrum ¶ ¶ album ¶ & ¶ viride; ¶ I had already given orders for their being sent to you & we are also waiting until they shall ...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1870-02-27.
Melb. bot.Garden ¶ 27/2/70 ¶ ¶ Let me in first instance, dear Dr Hooker, offer my best gratulation to your long & well deserved honor of the Companionship of the Bath. ¶ May you long live to enjoy t...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1873-07-15.
Melbourne ¶ 15/7/73 ¶ Private ¶ ¶ I write a few private lines, dear Dr Hooker, after my fuller official letter has been despatched to you. ¶ Capt. Stakepool of the Shannon brings several Extra Cycas...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Edward Ramsay, 1876-07-10.
10/7/76 ¶ ¶ Herewith, dear Mr Ramsay, ¶ fresh ¶ seeds of the best Cinchona, the red one, so rich in Quinin. The plant ought to become important for your sheltered fernglens. ¶ ¶ Did you or your br...
George Robinson to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1877-08-16.
Hillsley ¶ Berwick ¶ Aug 16th 1877. ¶ Dear Baron v Mueller ¶ ¶ In reply to yours of Monday 13 ins ¶ requesting to learn what are my ideas & experiences in relation to the growth of the Cinchonas in ...
Ferdinand von Mueller to [Eugene Hilgard], 1879-12-??.
¶ [It is a well known fact that the cinchona has been recommended to our tree-planters as a valuable and easily grown tree. Professor Hilgard of the State University has repeatedly urged it upon our ...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Maurice Holtze, 1880-05-07.
7 May 1880. ¶ ¶ Best thanks, dear Mr Holtze, for mentioning me so kindly in your Report. ¶ Your administration does you credit and will bring good results. ¶ ¶ Enclosed fresh seeds of the three bes...
Ferdinand von Mueller to George Engelmann, 1880-12-04.
4/12/80. ¶ ¶ Your friendly letter, highly esteemed Doctor, ¶ which you devoted to me at the same time with a letter of our genial Behr, ¶ reminds me that I still have not acknowledged the sending o...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Ellwood Cooper, 1883-06-12.
12/6/83. ¶ ¶ You have placed me under further obligations, dear Capt. Cooper, by sending me an other supply of your works most liberally, for which gift I tender you my best thanks. Kindly tell me, w...
Ferdinand von Mueller to William MacGregor, 1895-09-28.
28/9/95 ¶ ¶ Since I last wrote to you, dear Sir William, I received the enclosed letter from Mr Edgar, the Director of the bot. Garden of Rockhampton. ¶ I advised him, to send the Vanilla-plants at ...
Ferdinand von Mueller to William MacGregor, 1895-11-??.
Since I last wrote to you, dear Sir William, ¶ Probably M to W. MacGregor, 23 October 1895. ¶ I received the enclosed letter from Mr Edgar, the director of the botanical Garden of Rockhampton. ¶ Jame...