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Ferdinand von Mueller to John Foster, 1854-08-31.
Melbourne botanical Gardens, ¶ 31. August 1854. ¶ Sir ¶ ¶ I do myself the honor to inform you for communication to his Excellency the Governor, that I returned this day from my voyage to Sealers Cove...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Johan Areschoug, 1864-05-25.
25 May 1864. ¶ Esteemed Professor, ¶ ¶ I am pleased that I am able to notify you that this day I have dispatched by the ship ¶ Wellesley ¶ a case with unprepared algae, a number of mounted algae fr...
Ferdinand von Mueller to the Gardeners' Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette, 1866-02-??.
¶ Australian Ferns ¶ .—While lately engaged in examining critically all the Ferns hitherto found in Australia, I was reminded of the likelihood that very many of our southern species could be grown w...
Ferdinand von Mueller to [Julius Haast], 1866-04-??.
¶ The ¶ Pittospora ¶ are such lovely hardy and quick-growing plants that thousands of these plants are wanted for our cemeteries, town churches, and schools, hence I accept the seed you so kindly o...
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 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 Filippo Parlatore, 1866-12-28.
Melbourne Botanic Garden ¶ 28 December 1866 ¶ Dear Sir, ¶ ¶ Your friendly letters dated 25 September and 27 October ¶ have reached me and I thank you sincerely for them and also for "La Nazione" tha...
Ferdinand von Mueller to the Imperial Society of Naturalists of Moscow, 1867-??-??.
[Dr Ferdinand Muller of Melbourne in Australia in 4 consecutive letters announces his sendings of ethnographic objects destined for the public Museum in Moscow, ¶ M's sendings were most likely his res...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Ronald Gunn, 1867-06-12.
Stategarden 12/6/67 ¶ ¶ At a late hour, dear Mr Gunn, I can but briefly & hurriedly respond to your most interesting letter; ¶ still to remove the impression that I advanced inconscientiously observ...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1867-07-27.
Queenscliff ¶ 27/7/67 ¶ ¶ I date this from the coast, dear Dr Hooker, where I went, after never having left the department for ¶ six years ¶ , to endeavour to regain strength in rural tranquillity ...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Johan Lange, 1868-08-14.
Melbourne Botanic Garden, ¶ 14 August 1868. ¶ ¶ Although, revered Professor, there is no particular reason for writing to you, I do not want to let our correspondence come to a standstill. I also wou...
Wilhelm Sonder to Ferdinand Krauss, 1869-02-06.
Hamburg 6 Febr [18]69 ¶ Dear Friend, ¶ ¶ You certainly have looked out for a letter from me for some time already, which should have been in your hands long ago if it weren't for a severe cold chaini...
Joseph Hooker to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1869-05-14.
[May 14. 1869 ¶ Acknowledges pkts of seeds of Epacrids. "Have abundance of D. antarctica. ¶ Alsophila australis. Cyathea medullaris; we want good small trunks of the other Australian Tree ferns" Have...
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, 1870-06-20.
20/6/70 ¶ ¶ The Argania seeds, dear Dr Hooker, did not arrive. ¶ I raised one tree of Argania Sideroxylon 16 years ago, ¶ but the growth in our clime and in our locality is so slow, that the tree i...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Jacob Agardh, 1871-07-15.
Melbourne Botanic Garden, ¶ 15/7/71. ¶ ¶ Permit me, noble friend, to send you an uncorrected proof sheet of a note about the Chatham algae recently named by you. ¶ The paper you refer to has not yet...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Johan Lange, 1871-09-07.
Melbourne Botanic Garden, ¶ 7/9/71. ¶ ¶ With this month's mail, noble friend, I am dispatching a new collection of seeds to you with the thought that they will be welcome. The transmission has been a...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1871-11-05.
Melbourne bot Garden ¶ [5]/11/71 ¶ ¶ Am I rightly under an impression, dear Dr Hooker, that you wanted a very large Dicksonia antarctica? If so, I will be happy to place ¶ the largest ¶ of nine, sh...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Eduard Fenzl, 1871-11-05.
Melbourne Botanic Garden, ¶ 5 November 1871. ¶ ¶ Recently an opportunity offered, noble Sir, to transport some large tree ferns ( ¶ Dicksonia antarctica ¶ ) to (Europe) London under the kind care of ...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Jacob Agardh, 1871-12-03.
Melbourne Botanic Garden, ¶ 3 December 1871. ¶ ¶ Enclosed, noble Sir, I am sending you a few seaweeds from Port Denison, ¶ which might be welcome to you. ¶ ¶ Since I last wrote, I also have fresh ...
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...
William Woolls to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1879-04-21.
Richmond ¶ April 21 /79 ¶ My dear Baron, ¶ ¶ I think that I have at last solved the mystery about ¶ Alsophila ¶ ¶ Cooperi ¶ . ¶ ¶ A few days since I visited a spot at the Kurrajong, ¶ called "Ca...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1879-12-25.
Christmas ¶ 1879. ¶ ¶ As regards the Dicksonia from the Upper Hunter-River allied to D. fibrosa, dear Sir Joseph, I will make some enquiries, but I assume, that it is a mere form of D. antarctica (pe...
Joseph Hooker to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1880-10-06.
Oct. 6 /80 ¶ My dear Von Mueller ¶ ¶ The Livistona has arrived & seemingly in very good order. ¶ We are having it potted & shall do our best to bring it round & shall let you know the result. ¶ ¶ V...
William Woolls to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1881-07-11.
Richmond N.S.W. ¶ July 11th 1881 ¶ My dear Baron, ¶ ¶ I have read your letter ¶ & forwarded it to Mr Shepherd. I think that he ought to be satisfied with your candid explanation, & cease to say in e...
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...
John Baldry to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1883-09-03.
Wildwood Flinders ¶ Sept 3 [1883] ¶ To Baron von Mueller ¶ Government botanist ¶ Sir...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Ralph Tate, 1889-10-15.
15/10/89 ¶ ¶ Altho' I am so very much pressed for time, dear Professor Tate, just now through heavy departmental engagements and in finishing off the essay on Sir W. MacGregor's plants, I must write ...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Ralph Tate, 1890-07-06.
6/7/90 ¶ ¶ Among other work this day, dear Prof. Tate, in the quietness of Sunday, I have looked at some of your plants. You sent a curious Maba from the Adelaide-River, ¶ which I will carefully com...
Ferdinand von Mueller to David Boyle, 1895-05-06.
6/5/95 ¶ ¶ Would you be so kind, dear Mr Boyle, to tell me, what according to your observation is the greatest height of Dicksonia antarctica. ¶ With regardful remembrance ¶ ¶ your ¶ ¶ ¶ Ferd. von...