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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 Johan Areschoug, 1865-03-25.
25 March 1865. ¶ Esteemed Professor, ¶ ¶ I have once more transmitted a very large case of algae to you by the ship "Great Britain", ¶ and ask you to give some material of all species to Professor A...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Thomas Gore Browne, 1866-01-17.
Melbourne bot. Garden ¶ 17/1/66. ¶ I feel most grateful to your Excellency for the very kind manner, in which you were pleased to respond to my solicitations for obtaining some skull and perhaps skele...
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 the Australasian, 1866-11-??.
¶ Whether the coniferous trees of California or the myrtaceous trees of Australia rank as the most colossal of the globe is yet a question open for discussion. Lately a tree of Eucalyptus amygdalina ...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Henry Bolander, 1867-02-12.
12/2/67 ¶ Respected Professor ¶ ¶ I received your friendly letter only yesterday, ¶ which made me very happy, because I learnt from it that now a new path is opened to you and your great […]. Allow ...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1867-02-22.
22/2/67 ¶ ¶ It is quite right, dear Dr Hooker, that you should decline to send any fungi to Mr Smith, but I should have imagined he was a well established observer. ¶ I have for a dozen of years sen...
Ferdinand von Mueller to the Gardeners' Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette, 1867-03-??.
¶ The trees of Australia hitherto known are approximately 930. These have lately been statistically tabulated in an essay on Australian vegetation for the International and the French Exhibition. ¶ ...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Asa Gray, 1867-03-26.
Melb. Stategarden. ¶ 26/3/67. ¶ Private ¶ ¶ The enclosed bill of ladings show you, dear Prof. Gray, that again two consignments were despatched by my London Agents. ¶ I trust they will give pleasure...
Ferdinand von Mueller to the Société Impériale Zoologique d'Acclimatation, Paris, 1867-05-??.
[Mr. Ferd. Mueller announces the sending of a packet of seeds the acclimatization of which seems to him useful in Europe: there are, in particular, seeds of the ¶ Eucalyptus stuartiana ¶ and ¶ amyg...
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, 1871-01-24.
Melbourne ¶ 24/1/71 ¶ ¶ I am glad to hear, dear Dr Hooker, that you are proceeding so well with the genera. ¶ When you will have done the Rubiaceae and Mr Bentham the Compositae, there will be less ...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Thomas Ware, 1874-04-03.
Melbourne ¶ 3/4/74. ¶ Sir ¶ ¶ In compliance with the request of the honorable the Chief Secretary, as conveyed in your letter of the ¶ ¶ March, ¶ I have the honor of transmitting herewith a copy o...
Joseph Hooker to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1876-12-13.
Dec 13 /76. ¶ My dear Mueller ¶ ¶ Thank you much for your very kind letter of congratulation of 23/9/76. ¶ ¶ I am indeed pleased to hear that J. S. Mills Herbarium has been so acceptable. I have for...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Luigi Torelli, 1876-12-28.
Melbourne 28 December 1876 ¶ Dear Count, ¶ ¶ Your communication ¶ greatly honours me, and likewise the confidence you show in me by consulting me regarding the plantings of Eucalyptus that ought to ...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1877-05-03.
3/5/77. ¶ ¶ I thank you, dear Dr Hooker, for your two letters. ¶ ¶ I believe, that Eucalyptus amygdalina is hardier than E. globulus, as it attains to much higher elevations in the mountains. Lord S...
Ferdinand von Mueller to the Gardeners' Chronicle, 1877-12-??.
King George's Sound ¶ . ¶ ¶ I write a few lines, to inform you of the progress made by me here in South West Australia. While completing my tour from Swan River I went along the base of the Darling r...
William Spicer to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1878-02-04.
My dear Baron — ¶ ¶ Many thanks for 2 letters lately received. ¶ Since then I have communicated with Mr Aug. Simson respecting the Euc. virgata (?), which flourishes in his neighbourhood, Georges Ba...
Ferdinand von Mueller to the Editor of the Australian Town and Country Journal, 1878-06-01.
Sir ¶ — ¶ ¶ In reply to your question concerning the greatest height of the Eucalyptus, ¶ I would observe that exact data, giving a height much over 400 feet, seem to me unreliable. I have made meas...
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...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Edward Bage, 1879-03-31.
31/3/79. ¶ ¶ The high Eucalypts, dear Mr Bage, which I measured between Fernshaw and Marysville ¶ were all near the macadamized road, though some deep down in the vallies. I have my manuscript notes...
Charles Fawcett to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1879-04-29.
Ballina. ¶ 29/4/79. ¶ My dear Baron, ¶ ¶ I have just received your letter respecting Eucalipti. ¶ I shall be happy to do my best, but do not see my way as to the seedlings — I am terribly at sea as...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Vincenzo Cesati, 1879-08-22.
In 1829, Friedrich Dehnhardt published in Naples ¶ Catalogus plantarum Horti Camaldulensis ¶ , of which appeared in 1832, also in Naples, an augmented edition. In that list a Eucalyptus was described...
Alfred Howitt to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1879-12-04.
Grant ¶ Dec 4 1879 ¶ My dear Sir Ferdinand ¶ ¶ In coming from Omeo ¶ I observed that in getting out into the table lands and especially where the Basalt country is the forest consisted mainly of E. ...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Alphonse de Candolle, 1880-01-10.
10/1/80. ¶ ¶ You have placed me under obligation, honored and venerable Sir, by sending me some fragments of Euc. obtusiflora & E. pallens D.C. ¶ The first is not Benthams plant of that name. Could ...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Decaisne, 1880-03-31.
31/3/80. ¶ ¶ You have been always so kind and generous to me, honored and venerable Sir, that I venture to ask you again for some information. In some industrial remarks on various Acacias of Austral...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Alessandro de Goyzueta, 1880-08-16.
Melbourne 16/8/80. ¶ Commander Alessandro de Goyzueta ¶ Marquis of Toverena ¶ Italian Consul General &c. &c. &c. ¶ ¶ According to reports that have appeared in the recent European scientific journals...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1880-10-26.
26/10/80 ¶ ¶ Two days ago, dear Sir Joseph, the accomplished Miss North arrived, and I had the pleasure of meeting her on the evening of her arrival here, when she showed me her superb oil-paintings,...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Thomas Meehan, 1881-??-??.
¶ For out-door culture Australia offers but little to the Eastern United States; but some eucalyptus and acacia may be utilized for South California, Arizona and Southern Texas; but E. amygdalina, E....
Ferdinand von Mueller to William Thiselton-Dyer, 1881-02-22.
22/2/81. ¶ ¶ This day, dear Mr Dyer, I have received your kind letter of the 5. Jan. ¶ with the specimen branchlets of the hardy Kew-Eucalyptus. There cannot be the slightest doubt, that it is ¶ E....
Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1881-07-27.
27/7/81 ¶ ¶ This is not one of the largest's of the Euc. amygdalina, dear Sir Joseph, but it gives a good idea of the colossal stems which this species not rarely forms in our deepest forest-glens. T...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Ralph Tate, 1882-10-07.
7/10/82. ¶ Dear Professor. ¶ ¶ The creeping herb, found by you in the Sphagnum-bog near Mt M'Intyre, ¶ is Mitrasacme pilosa, Labill. ¶ ¶ All what you say about your tour interests me much, as it br...
Joseph Maiden to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1884-07-31.
31st July [188]4 ¶ Sir, ¶ ¶ I beg to enclose draft for twelve pounds twelve shillings (£12.12.0) in payment of Mr Charles Walter's account for forming the woods presented by you into books. Will you ...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Eduard von Regel, 1887-01-12.
12 January 1887. ¶ ¶ I still have to offer you my sincere best wishes, noble friend, for the turn of the year in our Christian era. May then the new annual epoch of time that we have entered now brin...
Ferdinand von Mueller to the Editor of the Argus, 1889-05-23.
Sir, — ¶ ¶ As in your highly valuable journal of yesterday and this day ¶ my name has been alluded to in reference to the giant trees of Australia, and as some of the remarks might imply that in my ...
Ferdinand von Mueller to William Thiselton-Dyer, 1889-10-16.
16/10/89 ¶ ¶ Let me ask you, dear Mr Dyer, to express to Sir Joseph my grateful recognition of the graceful manner, in which he alluded to me, when publishing an other Eucalypt in the Bot. Magaz. ¶ ...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Walter Gill, 1890-11-12.
12/11/90 ¶ ¶ The Acacia N. 173, dear Mr Gill, is probably a form of my A. microcarpa with phyllodes more curved than usual; but to be sure about the specific position, it would need to obtain ripe fr...
Joseph Maiden to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1891-07-21.
THE TECHNOLOGICAL MUSEUM ¶ NEW SOUTH WALES. ¶ Sydney ¶ 21st July ¶ 18 ¶ 91. ¶ Sir ¶ , ¶ On behalf of the Trustees of the Technological Museum of New South Wales, I have the honour to acknowledge the...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Leonard Rodway, 1892-05-01.
1/5/92 ¶ ¶ The Eucalyptus, of which you sent specimens, dear Mr Rodway, ¶ is of great interest, and was named at the Melbourne-Meeting of the Australian Association E. Perriniana, as then Mr Perrin,...
Leonard Rodway to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1892-07-07.
151 Macquarie St, ¶ Hobart. ¶ July 7th /92. ¶ Dear Baron, ¶ I must once again encroach on your valuable time. The enclosed sedge, found by Mr Wm Fitzgerald I can only make a Carpha only the Hypogynous...
Ferdinand von Mueller to the Leader, 1894-12-??.
In the southern lands of Carniola, ¶ Now part of Slovenia, the duchy of Carniola, capital Ljubljana, was part of the Austrian Empire. ¶ away from the Alpine tract, many of our Australian plants can b...
Ferdinand von Mueller to William Setchell, 1896-03-06.
¶ Hope, additional sending of Decades of Salsoloc. ¶ arrived. Like to hear more about the Alkali Lands ¶ ¶ Is it likely, that many Algs remain to be discovered on the West-Coast of N. America. ¶ ¶...