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Ferdinand von Mueller to Friedrich Miquel, 1861-05-25.
Melbourne, Botanic and Zoological Garden, ¶ 25 May 1861. ¶ Revered Professor, ¶ ¶ I have the honour to inform you, that through the kind agency of the Dutch Vice-Consul ¶ here a small parcel of ¶ F...
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 Friedrich Miquel, 1862-04-21.
Botanical and Zoological Garden, Melbourne ¶ 21 April 1862 ¶ My very dear Professor. ¶ ¶ Through the kind agency of my friend Consul Van Amstel a small parcel will be sent to you either by post or ot...
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], 1868-06-??.
¶ Could what I have sent as Taxotrophis rectinervis possibly be a ¶ Celtis ¶ ? ¶ I have no note whether it is lactescent or not. If a new Celtis the specific name might still be retained ¶ ¶ Some ...
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 Alphonse de Candolle, 1868-06-20.
Melbourne Botanic Garden ¶ 20/6/68 ¶ Dear Colleague. ¶ ¶ Just in time to send them by this mail I received from the printer the proofs of a portion of my Fragmenta containing, as preliminary works fo...
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 Mueller to George Bentham, 1868-11-21.
21/11/68 ¶ ¶ This day, dear Mr Bentham, I have despatched the Grevilleas, a noble collection of about 2000 specimens, representing the ¶ most charming ¶ of all the Australian Genera. Meissner & RBr...
Ferdinand von Mueller to George Bentham, 1870-04-22.
22/4/70. ¶ ¶ As far as sparehours occasionally permit, dear Mr Bentham, I work quietly away on Monocotyledoneae, preparatory for your work, but these sparehours are and have been much diminished in n...
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 the Gardeners' Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette, 1873-04-??.
¶ It may interest some of your readers to know that I have proved the possibility of moving from distant localities very aged Cycad trunks, deprived of their leaves, and without any earth being left ...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Lewis Bernays, 1873-11-08.
Melbourne, November 8, 1873. ¶ ¶ I gladly reply to the questions of your letter received this day, ¶ dear Mr Bernays. ¶ ¶ 1. The Cycadeae are not represented in Victoria. In a few months you will h...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Maurice Holtze, 1881-08-31.
31 August 1881. ¶ ¶ I should like to ask you, dear Mr Holtze, whether ¶ more ¶ than ¶ one ¶ ¶ Cycas ¶ species occurs there. In any case I should also like to ask you to send me a piece of the l...
Ferdinand von Mueller to William Thiselton-Dyer, 1881-09-05.
5/9/81. ¶ ¶ I have to thank you, dear Mr Dyer, for the photograms of Cycadeae, received from you. It needs not my assurance, that I will gladly aid you in any monographic work on that order; but it s...
Ferdinand von Mueller to William Thiselton-Dyer, 1881-12-31.
Newyearseve 1881 ¶ ¶ I must have left you under a wrong impression, dear Mr Dyer, when you thought, that I did not show any ardor for aiding your important researches on the Cycadeae; but my faciliti...
Ferdinand von Mueller to William Thiselton-Dyer, 1882-02-16.
16/2/82. ¶ ¶ Just on the mail-day, dear Mr Dyer, I received the first installment of photograms of Cycadeae from the Lands Department, i.e., two plates on two sorts of paper, so that one can be colou...
William Thiselton-Dyer to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1882-03-28.
Royal Gardens Kew ¶ Kew, March 28. 82 ¶ My dear Sir Ferdinand ¶ ¶ I have to acknowledge the safe recpt. of your letters of 14/2 & 16/2/82, as well as the superb photographs of Macrozamia Moorei and M...
Ferdinand von Mueller to William Thiselton-Dyer, 1882-03-29.
29/3/82 ¶ ¶ In accordance with your request, dear Mr Dyer, I send you by this post fresh nuts of Cycadeae for embryologic studies. What I had available and thus forwarded, is: ¶ ¶ Not long ago you r...
Ferdinand von Mueller to the Gardeners' Chronicle, 1882-04-??.
I see by one of the December numbers of the ¶ Gardeners' Chronicle ¶ that Cycas siamensis resists the freezing point. ¶ Gardeners' chronicle, 10 December 1881, pp. 757-8, noting that Revue horticole...
Ferdinand von Mueller to William Thiselton-Dyer, 1882-04-09.
Easter ¶ 1882 ¶ Through the holidays some delay has occurred at the atelier of the Gov. Photographer, in finishing several more illustrations of Cycadeae for you, dear Mr Dyer; and altho’ I have been ...
Ferdinand von Mueller to William Thiselton-Dyer, 1882-04-24.
24/4/82. ¶ ¶ The sky has been so overcast here since several weeks, dear Mr Dyer, that the photographer was unable to produce any good pictures of the several Macrozamia-cones he has in hand; but I h...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1882-05-22.
22/5/82. ¶ ¶ The five cases with R Brown’s plants, dear Sir Joseph, have arrived, and I am to get them tomorrow, so that I shall be able to let you know, how they arrived. It is very generous of you,...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1882-06-29.
29/6/82 ¶ ¶ The Census, ¶ of which I send a secont ¶ proof sheet, dear Sir Joseph, explains itself. As a Commentary to Bentham's fl. Austral. ¶ and to the fragmenta also it will facilitate the use...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Edward Ramsay, 1882-08-10.
10/8/82 ¶ ¶ Among what arrived from you to day, dear Mr Ramsay, and for which I am much beholden to you, the fruits of the Cycas interested me particularly. It is the first testimony of a Cycas exist...
Ferdinand von Mueller to William Thiselton-Dyer, 1883-01-29.
29/1/83. ¶ ¶ In continuation of former communications on Cycadeae ¶ I wish to tell you, dear Mr Dyer, that I have at the Gov. photographic Office now a ripe female amentum of Macrozamia Douglasii fo...
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...
Ferdinand von Mueller to William Thiselton-Dyer, 1889-01-27.
27/1/89 ¶ ¶ Pray, dear Mr Dyer, accept my best thanks for the kind sending of pt. XV of the Flora of British India, and convey to Sir Joseph my admiration of the vast amount of new and reliable infor...
Ferdinand von Mueller to William Thiselton-Dyer, 1890-10-21.
21/10/90. ¶ ¶ Am rejoycing, dear Mr Dyer, that your health improved in the light alpine air, in which respiration and oxygenation are so facilitated. There is a particular charm about ¶ alpine ¶ ve...
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...