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Ferdinand von Mueller to Carl von Martius, 1864-03-25.
Melbourne Botanic Garden, ¶ 25 March 1864. ¶ Venerable Sir, ¶ ¶ Your affectionate letter of 12th of January ¶ has filled me with deep joy and emotion; with joy, because I can bask in the youthful ar...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1866-02-05.
5/2/66 ¶ ¶ I anticipate, dear Dr Hooker, that you are collecting supplemental notes for your lamented fathers great fern works or for the continuation of his synopsis. ¶ Possibly the fern I herewith...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1872-06-18.
Melbourne bot garden ¶ 18/6/72 ¶ Private ¶ ¶ The enclosed report may interest you dear Dr Hooker. Look — please — at the answers to a series of questions drawn up by me particularly those regarding f...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1872-08-01.
Melbourne ¶ bot Garden ¶ 1/8/72. ¶ ¶ The same ship, dear Dr Hooker, which brings you this letter, brings nine Cycas stems from North Queensland, the first which ever reached Europe. I was long anxiou...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1872-10-06.
Melbourne ¶ ¶ bot Garden ¶ 6/10/72. ¶ ¶ As I have neither leisure nor tranquillity of mind, dear Dr Hooker, to write at length, I only enclose a few articles from our journals to give you, as a hon...
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...
Joseph Hooker to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1873-??-??.
¶ As to the International Exhibition; I have not even seen it & I doubt if I shall. I have no time whatever now to attend to these matters. I believe it will be annual but I think the public interest...
Joseph Hooker to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1873-01-15.
Kew Jay 15 /73. ¶ My dear Mueller ¶ ¶ I am in receipt of your’s of 4/11/72. & much distressed to hear of your trials & vexations. It is not easy for me to indicate or even suggest a course of action ...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1873-03-25.
Melbourne bot garden ¶ 25/3/73 ¶ ¶ From the enclosed telegram ¶ you will perceive, dear Dr Hooker, that the hon. W. H. Walsh, the Minister of the Lands Department of Queensland, would have sent me a...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Jacob Agardh, 1873-04-23.
Melbourne Botanic Garden, ¶ 23 April 1873. ¶ ¶ It is really kind of you, noble friend, that you undertook the laborious task of examining the Chatham algae so soon, ¶ and it is pleasing to see that,...
Joseph Hooker to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1873-05-06.
May 6/73. ¶ Dear Dr Mueller ¶ ¶ I have little time to write by this mail, being much occupied with the illness of my Brother in law the Rev. G. Henslow whose Botanical notes you may have seen in "Nat...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1873-07-14.
Melbourne ¶ 14/7/73. ¶ ¶ I have looked with extreme pleasure over the pages of the second vol. of your & Bentham’s genera, dear Dr Hooker, and trust that as an eternal monument of your & his greatnes...
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 Joseph Hooker, 1874-05-??.
[May 1874] ¶ ¶ You ask me, dear Dr Hooker, by last mail, whether I still hold Helmholtzia as a distinct genus. ¶ To this I must give an affirmative answer, as the matter presents itself to me in thi...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Eduard Strasburger, 1874-06-15.
Melbourne, ¶ 15/6/74. ¶ ¶ It does not need my assurance, noble Sir, that I shall be happy to assist your important anatomical and morphological researches by supplying the raw materials from this con...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Eduard Strasburger, 1874-07-14.
Melbourne, ¶ 14 /7/74. ¶ ¶ With this month's mail I want to inform you, esteemed Professor, that with the help of several labourers I succeeded in hauling a large trunk of ¶ Dicksonia antarctica ¶ ...
Edward Ramsay to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1874-07-16.
¶ […] ¶ (C. aust; & C. obstruens) ¶ the fronds were short & not long & ¶ wavy ¶ as in the others — I have no dried specimens ¶ ¶ Livistonia Leichhardtii ¶ 17 A species of Livistonia is found gro...
Edward Ramsay to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1874-08-16.
Dobroyde ¶ Aug 16—1874 ¶ To The Baron Ferd. Von Mueller ¶ ¶ Melbourne ¶ My dear Dr Mueller...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Johan Areschoug, 1874-09-06.
Melbourne, ¶ 6/9/74. ¶ ¶ I am very pleased, my very dear Professor, that the two tree-fern trunks have made new fronds under your care. This shows how attentively the plants are treated in your garde...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1874-12-02.
Melbourne 2/12/74. ¶ ¶ Last mail, dear Dr Hooker, brought me your kind letter of 22 Sept; ¶ ¶ it is delightful to perceive, with what sterling success the phytographic work is proceeding under your...
Joseph Hooker to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1875-03-10.
Kew March 10 /75. ¶ My dear Mueller ¶ ¶ The enclosed note ¶ was written to you 3 months ago & should have been sent off at the time with the list of Howe Island Plants ¶ — but matters with me soon ...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Eduard Strasburger, 1875-03-23.
Melbourne, ¶ 23. /3/75. ¶ ¶ I was very pleasantly surprised, noble friend, when last month's mail brought me not only your kind letter, ¶ but also the diploma signed with the Grand Duke's hand and t...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Asa Gray, 1875-08-07.
Melbourne 7/8/75. ¶ Private ¶ ¶ I have to acknowledge, dear Dr Gray, your kindness of sending me the new volume of the hist. of plants of Wilkes's Expedition, ¶ as well as several of your valuable p...
Edward Ramsay to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1875-08-25.
Aust Mus. Syd. ¶ Aug 25th 1875 ¶ To ¶ Baron Ferd Von Mueller [ ¶ ... ¶ ] ¶ ¶ &c ¶ ¶ &c...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Edward Ramsay, 1876-01-28.
28/1/76 ¶ ¶ I thank you for your friendly intention, dear Mr Ramsay, to send me the Cycas and other plants: Mr Fitzalan, though generally accurate, may have matched the fruit & leaves wrongly. I like...
Ferdinand von Mueller to George Bennett, 1876-12-??.
Report of Baron von Mueller, F.R.S., &c. ¶ ¶ The collection of plants brought together by Signor D'Albertis ¶ during his last expedition to New Guinea is of particular interest, inasmuch as thus for...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1880-07-20.
20/7/80 ¶ ¶ By this mail-steamer, dear Sir Joseph, I send you one ¶ living stems of Livistona australis ¶ in a close case. You will be somewhat surprised at this sending, but not so when I explain ...
Ferdinand von Mueller to the Gardeners' Chronicle, 1881-05-??.
I ¶ beg ¶ to send you an account of Encephalartos (Macrozamia) Moorei. These notes were kindly procured by Mr. G. E. Layton, the Secretary for Queensland at the Melbourne International Exhibition. I...
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...
Joseph Hooker to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1882-01-05.
Jay ¶ 5 /82. ¶ My dear Mueller ¶ ¶ I thank you much for your letter of 22/11 ¶ & offer of having Epacrideae sent in Cladonia — but really kind as the offer is I cannot wish it carried out. The chan...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Ralph Tate, 1882-02-26.
26/2/82 ¶ ¶ I write a few lines, dear Professor, to tell you that I have described your new Phyllanthus from the Bundaleer-Range ¶ as P. Tatei, and that the description will appear in the March-Numb...
Ferdinand von Mueller to William Thiselton-Dyer, 1882-03-15.
15/3/82 ¶ ¶ This day, dear Mr Dyer, I got through the kindness of Mr John Forrest the ¶ ♂ ¶ amenta of Macrozamia Fraseri in an excellent state for photographing; but the fruit amenta had fallen to ...
Ferdinand von Mueller to William Thiselton-Dyer, 1882-03-28.
28/3/82. ¶ ¶ I have two more species of Cycas-Amenta ¶ ♂ ¶ for you at the Photographers, dear Mr Dyer; but they had decayed on the long way, and will make bad illustrations. You shall have these ph...
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 Ralph Tate, 1882-05-02.
2/5/82 ¶ ¶ It is a very late night-hour, dear Professor, & after a heavy days work I feel very tired; but as I shall be very busy in my department to morrow, I write at once a few lines in reply to y...
Ferdinand von Mueller to William Thiselton-Dyer, 1882-06-06.
6/6/82. ¶ Would you be so kind to let me know, dear Mr Dyer, what spec. of Eupatorium it is, which yields the fine fibre in Argentina, mentioned in the Kew Report of 1877. ¶ ¶ The Cycas-scales shall ...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Maurice Holtze, 1882-10-??.
¶ [Without fruit.] ¶ ¶ [Without fruit.] ¶ ¶ [Ripe seed of this plant, known only from Arnhem Land, greatly desired.] ¶ ¶ [Does this plant die back annually except for the root like our German reed...
Eugene Fitzalan to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1883-04-09.
Willow Vale Bowen ¶ 9th April ¶ Dear Sir ¶ ¶ I send you a few specimens through the Post I will send you a larger parcel next week, and will write more fully and explain my difficulty in getting dow...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1883-05-05.
5/5/83 ¶ ¶ Perhaps you will think me troublesome, dear Sir Joseph, when I once more enquire about the Norf. Isl. plants. Could they be identified? ¶ I cannot think, that they are all endemic. C.DC. ...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Maurice Holtze, 1887-01-16.
16 January 1887. ¶ ¶ I would like to ask you, dear Mr Holtze, to let me know whether the 'water-Pandanus' occurs also in your area? I mean the small species, with a slim trunk and nuts that do ¶ not...
Ferdinand von Mueller to William Thiselton-Dyer, 1889-07-24.
24/7/89 ¶ ¶ Am glad, dear Mr Dyer, that the Gymnschoenus experiment looks hopeful. ¶ Will send in a few months a root of Restio tetraphyllus packed in moist moss. I believe, that it will keep alive ...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Otto Tepper, 1889-08-13.
13/8/89 ¶ ¶ It is a pleasant surprise for me, dear Mr Tepper, that there is now a prospect of becoming more closely familiar with the vegetation of King Sound ¶ through your son. ¶ I hope the young...
Ferdinand von Mueller to William Thiselton-Dyer, 1894-06-01.
1/6/94 ¶ ¶ In reply to your letter of the 19th Apr., dear Dr Dyer, let me say, that I have at once written to several correspondents in the Australian colonies, to secure fruits of Cycas and MacroZam...