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Wilhelm Sonder to Friedrich Miquel, 1854-03-09.
Hamburg 9 March 1854 ¶ Most highly esteemed Sir! ¶ ¶ […] ¶ ¶ You have perhaps seen from the last parts of ¶ Linnaea ¶ , that I have begun to work up the plants sent to me by my friend Dr Mueller fr...
Joseph Hooker to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1857-10-10.
Kew October 10th 1857. ¶ My dear Dr Mueller ¶ ¶ Since I last had the pleasure of addressing you, ¶ my Father has received the very splendid & most interesting collections of N. Australian plants whi...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Decaisne, 1858-01-15.
Botanic Garden, Melbourne, ¶ 15 Jan. 1858 ¶ Much honored Sir. ¶ ¶ I have to acknowledge your kind communication, dated 8. Oct. 1857, ¶ and am equally glad of my excellent friend Ramels prompt delive...
George Bentham to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1863-10-12.
London Octr 12 1863 ¶ My dear Sir ¶ ¶ Since I last wrote I have received yours of the 22d & 24th June and 23d July, and on my return to town I found the plants you announced safely arrived — Acacias ...
Joseph Hooker to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1864-12-02.
Kew Decr 2d/64. ¶ My dear Mueller ¶ ¶ Many thanks for your little volume on the Chatham Island plants; ¶ I am sure that Mr Travers must be much pleased to see his exertions so fully recognized & his...
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 James Hector, 1873-07-??.
While working on Restiaceae ¶ I revised also the few New Zealand species, and found that the supposed third species of ¶ Calostrophus ¶ is a new ¶ Lepyrodia ¶ , by which means your flora gets a ne...
Ferdinand von Mueller to George Bentham, 1873-08-11.
Melbourne ¶ 11/8/73 ¶ Private ¶ ¶ The Case with the Orchideae is in the Bay here, dear Mr Bentham, but I shall only be able by next mail to acquaint you with the state of its contents, doubtless unin...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Julius Haast, 1873-08-29.
Melbourne, ¶ 29 August 1873. ¶ ¶ I would like to ask you, dear friend, to send me as complete as possible a collection of Restionaceae and Cyperaceae from your Province and through the agency of frie...
Ferdinand von Mueller to George Bentham, 1873-10-08.
Melbourne ¶ 8/10/73 ¶ ¶ This day, dear Mr Bentham, I got a note from Mr Bennett in Sydney, ¶ who kindly looked up for me Capt Cook's reference to the Banana in the work on his first circumnavigation...
Ferdinand von Mueller to John Buchanan, 1873-11-07.
Melbourne ¶ 7/11/73. ¶ ¶ After my work for the outgoing European mail was completed, dear Mr Buchanan, ¶ I looked more closely over your specimens, and I found that you ¶ did ¶ send 2 small branch...
Ferdinand von Mueller to John Buchanan, 1873-11-07.
Melbourne, ¶ 7/11/73 ¶ ¶ Let me acknowledge, dear Mr Buchanan ¶ your kindness of sending me the Glumaceae &c on behalf of Dr Hector, to whom I beg to express my best thanks. I will look over them wi...
Ferdinand von Mueller to George Bentham, 1874-02-22.
[Carngham] ¶ beyond Ballarat. ¶ 22/2/74. ¶ ¶ On my way to the unexamined mountains W. of Cape Otway, dear Mr Bentham, I write to you for this month's mail only a few lines, mainly to ask you, ¶ when...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Filippo Parlatore, 1874-02-24.
Mount Emu ¶ 24/2/74 ¶ ¶ It was with feelings of extreme gladness, dear Commandeur Parlatore, that I learnt from your letter of the 1 Dec. 1873, ¶ how highly you and your distinguished Exhibition Col...
Ferdinand von Mueller to George Bentham, 1874-07-14.
Melbourne ¶ 14/7/74 ¶ ¶ I have sent by this post, dear Mr Bentham, the duplicate bill of loading concerning the consignment by " ¶ Northumberland ¶ " to Dr Hooker. It contained all Liliaceae & some a...
Ferdinand von Mueller to George Bentham, 1874-09-04.
Melbourne ¶ 4/9/74. ¶ ¶ The case per "Agamemnon" has gone to you, dear Mr Bentham, this week. Let me trust, that it will as safely reach you and as unimpaired be returned on the back passage, as the ...
Ferdinand von Mueller to George Bentham, 1874-10-05.
Melbourne ¶ 5/10/74 ¶ ¶ Be so kind, dear Mr Bentham, to let me know, whether the large case with Liliaceae, &c sent some months ago, has safely arrived. ¶ Meanwhile the Junceae &c, also in a large c...
Ferdinand von Mueller to George Bentham, 1874-11-02.
Melbourne, 2/11/74. ¶ ¶ Since last I wrote to you, dear Mr Bentham, I have visited Mount Oberon on Wilson's promontory, ¶ which large granitic mount I saw but could not reach in 1853. Against my exp...
Ferdinand von Mueller to George Bentham, 1874-12-25.
Melbourne ¶ Christmas, 1874. ¶ ¶ Since last I wrote, dear Mr Bentham, I have finished in sparehours an other portion of the Cyperaceae; so that now about 150 species got ready, and not more than abou...
Ferdinand von Mueller to George Bentham, 1875-02-23.
Melbourne ¶ 23/2/75. ¶ ¶ I am glad to learn from you by last mail, dear Mr Bentham, that the case with Junceae, Restiaceae &c safely arrived. ¶ There is of course always great risk in trusting such ...
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...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1876-05-15.
15/5/76. ¶ ¶ I thank you, dear Dr Hooker, for the ¶ support ¶ you have given me, by causing the despatches, concerning the new remedy against the Pemphigus or Phylloxera to be referred to me offici...
Ferdinand von Mueller to George Bentham, 1876-06-10.
10/6/76. ¶ ¶ As you have done with the Liliaceae, dear Mr Bentham, ¶ I will make arrangements for the despatch of the Cyperaceae (2 large cases) at an early date. ¶ ¶ I cannot see, why the Restiace...
George Bentham to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1876-07-??.
25, WILTON PLACE. S.W. ¶ My dear Sir ¶ ¶ I have now almost finished the apocarpous and corolline orders and Junceae and am having a second box packed up to return to you — it will probably be sent of...
Ferdinand von Mueller to George Bentham, 1876-09-04.
4/9/76 ¶ ¶ I have forwarded to you, dear Mr Bentham, or rather to Dr Hooker, by the ship "Agamemnon" two large Cases with Cyperaceae 10 weeks weeks ago. Altho' it seems inadvisable to send consignmen...
George Bentham to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1876-09-20.
25, WILTON PLACE. S.W. ¶ London ¶ Sept 20 1876 ¶ My dear Sir ¶ ¶ The Composite which has invaded Australia and of which you sent a specimen in your last letter is Inula graveolens a common weed in a ...
George Bentham to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1876-10-18.
25, WILTON PLACE. S.W. ¶ London ¶ Oct 18th 1876 ¶ My dear Sir ¶ ¶ I write a few lines chiefly to beg you if not done already kindly to send off the Gramineae and Ferns as soon as possible ¶ I begin ...
George Bentham to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1876-11-15.
25, WILTON PLACE. S.W. ¶ London ¶ Novr 15 1876 ¶ My dear Sir ¶ ¶ I write a few lines to say that the Agamemnon has been in about a fortnight. ¶ There has I believe been some delay in unloading her a...
Ferdinand von Mueller to George Bentham, 1876-11-28.
28/11/76 ¶ ¶ The Gramineae are gone since some time, dear Mr Bentham, by the "Shannon", and the Filices shall soon follow. By all means let General Munro have a full set or any duplicates of my Grami...
George Bentham to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1877-01-10.
25, WILTON PLACE. S.W. ¶ London ¶ Jany 10 /77 ¶ My dear Sir ¶ ¶ I have to thank you for your note and am glad to hear that the Gramineae are on their way. The Shannon is due I believe in the course o...
George Bentham to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1877-04-30.
25, WILTON PLACE. S.W. ¶ London ¶ April 30 /77 ¶ My dear Sir ¶ ¶ A box is packed up at Kew to be sent off today or tomorrow containing your Palms from Wendland your miscellaneous monocotyledons and t...
Ferdinand von Mueller to George Bentham, 1877-05-31.
31/5/77. ¶ ¶ I admire the vigor & unceasing steadiness of your researches, dear Mr Bentham; but then you are in happy independence and there is nothing to withdraw your attention from your glorious c...
George Bentham to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1877-06-27.
25, WILTON PLACE. S.W. ¶ London ¶ June 27 /77 ¶ My dear Sir ¶ ¶ I send by this post four sheets of the new vol. of Flora Australiensis ¶ the printing goes on but slowly though the copy is all in the...
Ferdinand von Mueller to George Bentham, 1877-08-22.
22/8/77. ¶ ¶ I was pleased, dear Mr Bentham, to get the commencing sheets of vol VII ¶ and admire the vigorous continuation of the work as a sound foundation for all future observations, if indeed p...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Edward Ramsay, 1878-04-04.
Thursday ¶ ¶ I write this from Gippsland, dear Mr Ramsay, and will return to you the NZ Cyperaceae & Restiaceae so soon as I return. ¶ It is not in my recollection that your letter asked for the ret...
Donald Petrie to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1878-06-10.
Education Office, ¶ Dunedin, ¶ June 10th 1878 ¶ My Dear Baron, ¶ ¶ A few days after Easter I went and gathered Donatia in fruit for you. I fear I was rather early as the seeds are scarcely ripe. I ha...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Otto Tepper, 1880-06-10.
[small-flowering variety; ¶ rich in oil ¶ .] ¶ [Varieties of ¶ Xerotes effusa ¶ as far as I can judge from the specimens.] ¶ [Is this really separable as a species from ¶ P. spicatus ¶ ?] ¶ ¶ [Wi...
Ralph Tate to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1881-12-03.
Decr. 3.1881 ¶ My Dear Baron ¶ ¶ Enclosed find specimens of Hybanthus, the most advanced in fruit that I have. Many thanks for the honour you seek to do me by associating my name with this discovery....
Ferdinand von Mueller to Ralph Tate, 1883-01-22.
22/1/83 ¶ ¶ To day, dear Prof Tate, I got from you a parcel of dried plants, but no letter. As I can manage to make an hour free, I just note at once some remarks on these specimens. ¶ ¶ Agrostis fr...
Joseph Hooker to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1888-04-16.
The Camp. ¶ Sunningdale ¶ . ¶ April 16 /8 ¶ 8 ¶ My dear Baron ¶ ¶ Dyer tells me that you would kindly accept a more modern photograph of me than that you have. I take so little count of such things t...
Ferdinand von Mueller to William Thiselton-Dyer, 1889-11-21.
21/11/89 ¶ ¶ Am much beholden to you, dear Mr Dyer, for the speedy information afforded, and beg of you, to thank Mr Baker and Mr Clarke, for the trouble taken by them about the Papuan ferns & Cypera...
Donald Petrie to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1893-09-03.
Clyde St, ¶ Dunedin ¶ 3rd Septr 1893. ¶ My Dear Baron, ¶ ¶ It is a pleasure to hear from you once more. ¶ From your long silence I began to fear that your health might not be as good as your friends...
Ferdinand von Mueller to William Thiselton-Dyer, 1894-06-18.
18/6/94. ¶ ¶ What a "quid pro quo" dear Dr Dyer with the Eurycles! ¶ I must write again to the Magistrate of Thursday Island, ¶ begging for further searches after the rare Eurycles alba, as I calle...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1894-06-18.
18/6/94 ¶ ¶ By last mail, dear Sir Joseph, I received from Dr Dyer the concluding part of vol. VI of your famous flora of British India. ¶ Mr Clarke's treatment of the Cyperaceae is thorough and rel...