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Ferdinand von Mueller

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  • Ferdinand von Mueller to the Editor of the Inglewood Advertiser, 1861-03-26.
    Sir ¶ , — ¶ ¶ Professional engagements during the greater of this month in the Australian Alp has been the cause of my tardiness in acknowledging the receipt of some saccharine substance forwarded fr...
    • 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...
      • George Bentham to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1866-01-18.
        25 Wilton Place ¶ London S.W. ¶ Jany 18 1866 ¶ My dear Sir ¶ ¶ Your case of Compositae arrived safe a short time since....
        • Ferdinand von Mueller to George Bentham, 1866-06-26.
          26/6/66 ¶ ¶ I have enclosed, dear Mr Bentham, in the letter for Dr Hooker ¶ ripe fruit (berries) of Abrophyllum. The ¶ enormous ¶ extrawork of the season kept me strictly to the work of my Directo...
          • George Bentham to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1866-09-25.
            25, WILTON PLACE, S.W. ¶ Sept 25 1866 ¶ My dear Sir ¶ ¶ I have now returned to my work which I have commenced this morning at Kew I there found yours of the 26th June which I proceed to answer. ¶ ¶ ...
            • Ferdinand von Mueller to the Gardeners' Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette, 1868-11-??.
              [We owe to the kindness of our valued correspondent, Dr. Ferdinand von Muller, the following list of trees and shrubs on which Loranthus pendulus and L. celastroides have been observed growing, in the...
              • Ferdinand von Mueller to Ferdinand von Krauss, 1870-01-??.
                January 1870. ¶ List of woods in the case sent per ¶ Lincolnshire ¶ ....
                • Ferdinand von Mueller to Edward Ramsay, 1879-05-12.
                  12/5/79. ¶ ¶ Can you kindly inform me, dear Mr Ramsay, whether more than one of the Cicads secretes the sap of Eucalyptus viminalis & perhaps other Eucalypts in the form of so called Manna, and what ...
                  • Ferdinand von Mueller to Edward Ramsay, 1879-07-24.
                    24./7./79. ¶ ¶ The palm-fruits sent by you, dear Mr Ramsay, are seemingly those of a Kentia, and distinct from those of K. acuminata, so far as I can see, but as not even the remnants of a calyx are ...
                    • 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...
                      • J. Ednie Brown to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1879-08-25.
                        Wirrabara ¶ — 25/8/79. ¶ Dear Sir Ferdinand, ¶ No 1 branchlet enclosed is from a tree called "Blue Gum" here. It attain to a large size in this forest and is generally found growing on deep soils in ...
                        • Ferdinand von Mueller to Otto Tepper, 1879-09-18.
                          18/9/79. ¶ ¶ I should like to ask you, dear fellow countryman, whether through your entomological studies you have become familiar with the insect (Cicada) that bores the leaves of ¶ Eucalyptus vimi...
                          • Ferdinand von Mueller to Otto Tepper, 1879-09-21.
                            Sunday ¶ 21/9/79 ¶ ¶ Herewith the names of the plants, dear Mr Tepper, which you just sent, as far as they are able to be named according to the material at hand. ¶ ¶ Have you had the opportunity to...
                            • Ferdinand von Mueller to Otto Tepper, 1879-11-01.
                              1/11/79 ¶ ¶ In answer to your letter of 26 October, ¶ I should like to remark, dear Mr Tepper, that the ¶ fruit ¶ must show whether ¶ Rhagodia nutans ¶ includes two specific forms; what seems to...
                              • Ferdinand von Mueller to Otto Tepper, 1879-11-21.
                                21/11/79 ¶ ¶ Enclosed I am sending you, dear Mr Tepper, the names of your plants that have just arrived. The silky-haired ¶ Billardiera ¶ I described already as ¶ B. sericophora ¶ in ¶ Linnaea ¶...
                                • 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 Otto Tepper, 1879-12-12.
                                    12/12/79 ¶ ¶ As far as I could, dear Mr Tepper, I have named your plants that recently arrived. ¶ ¶ In your list of plants, I have deleted the introduced species. They inconveniently interrupt the n...
                                    • Ferdinand von Mueller to Otto Tepper, 1880-01-08.
                                      8/1/80 ¶ ¶ Best thanks, dear fellow countryman, for your kind felicitation for the New Year, which I very warmly reciprocate. May the New Year and the whole new decennium also be one of blessing and ...
                                      • Ferdinand von Mueller to Otto Tepper, 1880-02-18.
                                        18/2/80 ¶ ¶ I have just translated your notes on the Lerp-Fulgorida, dear Mr Tepper, to send them to my friend, Professor Owen, who is able to give us information about the precise generic and specif...
                                        • Ferdinand von Mueller to Otto Tepper, 1880-04-12.
                                          12/4/80. ¶ ¶ Your kind letter of 6 April ¶ reached me today, dear Mr Tepper. The parcel of plants did not accompany it but will probably follow soon, and I'll then immediately undertake the naming. ...
                                          • Augustus Simson to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1880-05-??.
                                            ¶ […] ¶ he had seen near George's Bay trunks of E. viminalis with streams of so-called Manna adhering to them even to near the base; it was exuding from perforations of the bark, made by Cicada moer...
                                            • Ferdinand von Mueller to Otto Tepper, 1881-01-18.
                                              18/1/81. ¶ ¶ Only a few words, dear Mr Tepper, to come back to the previous question of the lerp and melitose. For my next Decade of the Eucalyptography I have to discuss ¶ Eucalyptus viminalis ¶ a...
                                              • Thomas Stephens to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1881-02-??.
                                                [ ¶ In bringing together such information, as we possess, on the saccharine secretions of Eucalypts, I should not pass the experiences of the very observant Mr. T. Stephens, M.A., Inspector of Schools...
                                                • Ferdinand von Mueller to Otto Tepper, 1881-02-01.
                                                  1/2/81 ¶ ¶ Your essay on the orchids, ¶ dear Mr Tepper, I have read with pleasure. Your comprehensive observations are commendable and should be extended to the fertilization of these plants by the ...
                                                  • Ferdinand von Mueller to Richard Owen, 1881-02-01.
                                                    1/2/81 ¶ ¶ Allow me, dear Prof. Owen, to send to you for kind identification specimens of the insect, which produces the Melitose (or Eucalyptus Manna) on Euc. ¶ viminalis ¶ . Though much controvers...
                                                    • Ferdinand von Mueller to Otto Tepper, 1881-11-12.
                                                      12/11/81 ¶ ¶ It is already after midnight, dear Mr Tepper, and I am very tired, but I'll still begin a long letter. ¶ ¶ First of all ¶ Wurmbea ¶ (or ¶ Wurmbsea ¶ ) ¶ , to which ¶ Anguillaria ¶ ...
                                                      • Otto Tepper to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1882-01-??.
                                                        [The circumspect Mr. Tepper alludes moreover ¶ Referring to Tepper (1884). ¶ to a larger kind of "lerp" to be found on ¶ Eucalyptus gracilis ¶ , E. uncinata and E. Leucoxylon; and in a letter, dated...
                                                        • Ferdinand von Mueller to Otto Tepper, 1882-05-22.
                                                          22/5/82 ¶ ¶ With much interest, dear Mr Tepper, I read through your paper on the entomology of South Australia. ¶ It is very praiseworthy that you acquired knowledge of ¶ all ¶ groups of insects t...
                                                          • Ferdinand von Mueller to Otto Tepper, 1883-10-16.
                                                            16/10/83 ¶ ¶ It is my wish, esteemed Mr Tepper, to include Eucalyptus viminalis in the 10th decade of the Eucalyptographia, ¶ and since this is to be published soon, I would like to ask you, because...
                                                            • Ferdinand von Mueller to Ralph Tate, 1883-10-25.
                                                              25/10/83. ¶ ¶ To day, dear Prof. Tate, your young friend, Mr Newman, whose grandfather and parent I knew, ¶ brought kindly the parcel of plants from you. Being still by my cough confined to within t...
                                                              • Otto Tepper to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1884-03-08.
                                                                8.3.84 ¶ To Baron von Mueller per "Adelaide" ¶ 1 Waddy Yorkes Pen. ¶ 1 round Boomerang, Nuriootpa ¶ 1 Fungus interior of Euc. viminalis...
                                                                • Ferdinand von Mueller to William Thiselton-Dyer, 1884-05-16.
                                                                  16/5/84 ¶ ¶ You will observe, dear Mr Dyer, from the enclosed letter adressed by Mr Thoms to the Rev Dr Woolls ¶ that the byefollowing seeds of Ipomoea Calobra are worthy of special attention, as by...
                                                                  • Ferdinand von Mueller to Bernhard Tollens, 1885-??-??.
                                                                    ¶ [Baron Dr. F. v. Muller in Melbourne has had the great goodness to send me a sample of manna from Eucalyptus viminalis, that interesting substance which has been studied by Thomson, Virey, and espe...
                                                                    • Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1885-07-12.
                                                                      12/7/85 ¶ ¶ Would there be any chance, dear Sir Joseph, to ascertain still, whether the big Eucalyptus tree, which stood so many years in the open air at Haddington, ¶ and which may be there still, ...
                                                                      • Ferdinand von Mueller to Henry Deane, 1886-12-30.
                                                                        30/12/86. ¶ ¶ You must have wondered, dear Mr Deane, why I did not acknowledge the receipt of your sending of dried plants, but though it was made by you there 2 weeks ago, it reached me only yesterd...
                                                                        • Ferdinand von Mueller to Robert Watson, 1888-12-07.
                                                                          Melbourne ¶ 7/12/88. ¶ Robt. Watson Esqr., ¶ Engineer in Chief of the Victorian Railway-Department ¶ Sir....
                                                                          • Leonard Rodway to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1892-04-27.
                                                                            Hobart, ¶ April 27th /92. ¶ Dear Baron, ¶ ¶ I enclose two specimens of Eucalypts, both taken from the same tree. ¶ ¶ They are taken from a clump of shrubs growing near Hamilton. Hitherto they have b...
                                                                            • 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...
                                                                              • Joseph Maiden to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1893-03-14.
                                                                                TECHNOLOGICAL MUSEUM, SYDNEY. ¶ MEMO ¶ . from the CURATOR to ¶ 14th March ¶ 189 ¶ 3 ¶ Dear Baron Mueller, ¶ ¶ I send you materials for coming to a decision, at your leisure, in regard to the specifi...
                                                                                • Ferdinand von Mueller to the Australasian, 1894-04-??.
                                                                                  The views held by various observers as regards the mode in which the eucalyptus manna (Mellitose) is formed and secreted are diversified. Dr. George Bennett (Wanderings in N.S.W., 1834) ¶ G. Bennett (...
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