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Ferdinand von Mueller to John O'Shanassy, 1858-10-24.
REPORT. ¶ Melbourne Botanic Garden, ¶ 24th October, 1858. ¶ Sir, ¶ ¶ ¶ I have the honor of transmitting to you my Annual Report on the progress of our labors in the Botanical Garden....
Ferdinand von Mueller to George Bentham, 1862-01-24.
Melbourne bot & zool. Garden ¶ 24 Jan. 62. ¶ My dear Mr Bentham. ¶ ¶ I am highly gratified with your very kind communication received by last mail and the interesting remarks on Australian Botany, wh...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Decaisne, 1862-08-16.
Melbourne botanic Garden ¶ 16 Aug. 1862. ¶ My dear Professor Decaisne ¶ ¶ I had the pleasure of forwarding by the "Moravian" for the Muséum d'histoire naturelle on the 8th of August 2 boxes, adressed...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Alphonse de Candolle, 1862-08-18.
Melbourne bot. Garden, ¶ 18. Aug 62 ¶ My dear Professor! ¶ ¶ I have forwarded on the 8. Aug. pr. ship Moravian in a box, containing several collections for the Muséum d'histoire naturelle, also a par...
Ferdinand von Mueller to George Bentham, 1863-12-12.
Melbourne bot Garden ¶ 12/12/63 ¶ Dear Mr Bentham. ¶ ¶ By the Sussex I have forwarded to you 2 Cases, containing 52 fascicles of Eucalypti; the whole of my collection of that genus. I have inserted a...
Ferdinand von Mueller to [Thomas Anderson], 1864-02-24.
Melbourne bot. Garden ¶ 24/2/64. ¶ My dear Professor. ¶ ¶ The firm, which in my opinion would best supply the seed for field-crops to the Horticultural Society of Bengal, is that of Messrs Will. Law ...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Filippo Parlatore, 1864-08-24.
Melbourne bot. Garden ¶ 24 Aug. 64 ¶ My dear Professor ¶ ¶ The Chevalier Biagi very kindly brought me the seeds and the publications, which you were pleased to send to my establishment & for which I ...
Ferdinand von Mueller to William Hooker, 1865-05-25.
25/5/65 ¶ Dear Sir William. ¶ ¶ The large quantity of seeds of hardy shrubs & trees, which you have been so kind to forward from Kew, together with the case of bulbs & cacti, have arrived. ¶ The con...
Ferdinand von Mueller to [Thomas Anderson], 1866-03-24.
24/3/66 ¶ Dear Collegue. ¶ ¶ I received ¶ not ¶ the Deodar seeds you so generously again secured, they undoubtedly having been left behind at Galle, ¶ where much of the Steamers good was left for ...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Theodor Kotschy, 1866-05-24.
Melbourne Botanic Garden, ¶ 24 May 1866. ¶ ¶ I was very pleased, dear Dr Kotschy, to receive a few sheets written by a man whose name is so well known and esteemed in science. ¶ I have thought of yo...
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 Joseph Hooker, 1868-06-12.
Melbourne Botanic Garden ¶ 12/6/68 ¶ ¶ By the Lincolnshire, ¶ ¶ dear Dr Hooker, you will receive Box 42, containing Monochlamydeae according to the byefollowing Index. ¶ Pray inform Mr Bentham, th...
Ferdinand von Mueller to George Bentham, 1868-06-14.
14/6/68. ¶ I owe you, dear Mr Bentham, an ¶ ¶ answer to your kind letter of 16 April, which was coming here later than usual. I feel indebted for your and Dr Hookers remarks on the Apostasia, which ...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1868-07-04.
Melbourne botan. Garden ¶ 4 July 1868. ¶ ¶ This day, dear Dr Hooker, I forwarded box No. 43 by the "Anglesey" to you. I have done my best to push on preparing the material for the fifth volume, ¶ an...
Ferdinand von Mueller to George Bentham, 1868-07-14.
Bot. Gard. Melbourne ¶ 14/7/68 ¶ ¶ It is quite a relief to my mind, dear Mr Bentham, to learn by the telegrams of this mail, that ¶ all ¶ the Boxes bringing material for volume IV have safely arriv...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1868-11-19.
19/11/68. ¶ ¶ By the ¶ Norfolk ¶ , dear Dr Hooker, I sent to you for Mr Benthams use my whole collection of Grevilleae, approximately 2000 specimens. It took me many days to arrange them finally. Th...
Ferdinand von Krauss to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1869-??-??.
[Desiderata of woods from New Holland. ¶ (after von Mueller notes on the vegetation of Melbourne 1866.) ¶ ] ¶ [better to say: from those woods listed in his notes we have represented only the families...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1869-03-28.
28/3/69 ¶ ¶ By the Anglesey in a few days, dear Dr Hooker, I shall send off the ¶ rest ¶ of the Dicotyledoneae, in two large Boxes. I am very glad that I managed to put these plants all into perfec...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Filippo Parlatore, 1869-04-24.
Melbourne bot Garden ¶ 24/4/69 ¶ I feel very much indebted, dear Prof. Parlatore, for your great kindness in sending me your photogram ¶ , ¶ which I shall treasure much. I am also obliged for your go...
Ferdinand von Mueller to George Bentham, 1870-09-??.
p. ¶ ¶ Among Proteaceae I miss the genera Molloya and Strangea in the general table. ¶ The former is to me not more known that it was to Meissner, ¶ but Strangea seems in my opinion very distinct a...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Filippo Parlatore, 1870-12-25.
Melbourne botan Garden ¶ Christmasday/ 1870 ¶ ¶ My best thanks are due to you, dear Professor Parlatore, for the great honor, which the illustrious administrators of the museum of Florence conferred ...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1871-01-??.
Melbourne bot Garden ¶ jan. 1871 ¶ ¶ I have sent you, dear Dr Hooker, by the "Hydaspes" ¶ 2 cases with Australian plants in a growing state; and by the "Geo. Thomson" another small case (calico-cove...
Ferdinand von Mueller to George Bentham, 1871-05-??.
¶ Some simplification among the genera of Coniferae is necessary. You ¶ ¶ will have observed that I insisted on the reduction of Frenela to Callitris in my elucidation of the fossil genus Spondylos...
Ferdinand von Mueller to George Bentham, 1872-03-18.
Melbourne ¶ bot Garden ¶ 18/3/72 ¶ ¶ By the steamship "Northumberland," ¶ dear Mr Bentham, I have at last sent a case with more plants for your use. This is the first sending after nearly ¶ three ¶...
George Bentham to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1872-11-19.
25, WILTON PLACE. S.W. ¶ Novr 19 /72 ¶ My dear Sir ¶ ¶ Your box of Orchideae has reached us all safe as well as the separate parcel. I have just finished Coniferae and am now at Cycadeae which will t...
Joseph Hooker to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1872-11-20.
Kew Novr 20 /72. ¶ My dear V. Mueller ¶ ¶ I am again very deep in your debt part cause of which you will no doubt kindly excuse attributing it to the loss I have sustained in the death of Lady Hooker...
George Bentham to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1872-12-17.
25, WILTON PLACE. S.W. ¶ 17 Decr 1872 ¶ My dear Sir ¶ ¶ A box was sent off last week from Kew with your Coniferae and allied families as far as the box would hold. The large parcels of Cycadeae and t...
Ferdinand von Mueller to James Casey, 1873-06-26.
Melbourne bot. Garden ¶ 26/6/73. ¶ Sir ¶ ¶ I have the honor to transmit to you herewith such seeds of ¶ foresttrees ¶ as are available in the seeds magazine of the bot Garden at this moment, to whi...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1873-08-11.
Melbourne ¶ 11/8/73. ¶ ¶ I beg to send you, dear Dr Hooker, a few fragments of Raoulia Meredithae, which has now be found on a second place, Mt Olympus, after I discovered it on Mt Field East. It is ...
Ferdinand von Mueller to the Gardeners' Chronicle, 1879-02-??.
¶ No one ¶ should recommend the Eucalypts for utilitarian culture ¶ en gros ¶ in any region subject to severe frosts, nor can many species be cultivated in damp tropical lowlands, though the speci...
Federico Philippi to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1885-??-??.
[…] My journey was very interesting and in spite of the fact that it was always through the desert, yet I have brought back handsome results principally of plants. My companions were my second son Ott...
Ferdinand von Mueller to William Thiselton-Dyer, 1885-04-28.
28/4/85 ¶ ¶ Let me thank you, dear Mr Dyer, for sending me the Kew-Report for 1882, ¶ the Museum-Guide ¶ and Mess. Bower & Vines practical Botany, ¶ all of value here in a variety of ways. ¶ I am...
William Clarson to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1889-03-22.
Longerenong Agl ¶ College ¶ Dooen, ¶ 22/3/89 ¶ My dear Baron von Mueller ¶ ¶ Many thanks for your enclosures of seeds of the varieties of Eucalyptus of which tree I purpose having a collection of s...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Sereno Watson, 1891-06-13.
13/6/91 ¶ ¶ The latest set of Mr Pringle's plants ¶ have just arrived, dear Professor Watson, and I merely now write to acknowledge the receipt of them in a good state of preservation. Just at the e...
Ferdinand von Mueller to William Henry Archer, 1893-03-18.
18/03/93. ¶ ¶ Your studies of Australian Lichens are so important, dear Mr Archer, that you should keep Nylander's work, ¶ til you have obtained from it all the information, desired by you. My menti...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Jean Müller, 1893-04-18.
18/4/93. ¶ ¶ I think I have not yet consulted you, highly esteemed friend, as I long ago wished in reference to your views on the inclusion of the Monochlamydeae. Because the ¶ 3rd Census ¶ must so...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Casimir de Candolle, 1896-03-31.
Melbourne, 31/3/96. ¶ ¶ This day, dear Prof de Candolle, I received the large volume on Bromeliaceae, which you so generously forwarded to me. ¶ It is a superb volume of a splendid series! Mr Mez ma...