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Ferdinand von Mueller to William Hooker, 1855-06-28.
Bot. Gardens, Melbourne ¶ 28. June 1855. ¶ Sir William, ¶ ¶ I beg to enclose in this letter a bill of loading for a box with narrowly packed specimens, shipped to you this day per Francis Henty. I ho...
Ferdinand von Mueller to William Hooker, 1856-06-18.
Main Camp on the Victoria River, ¶ 18 June 1856 ¶ Sir William, ¶ ¶ Prepared to leave in Mr Gregory's party this camp again within a few days, I am anxious to avail myself of the only opportunity, whi...
Ferdinand von Mueller to George Bentham, 1866-01-24.
24/1/66 ¶ ¶ It was my intention, dear Mr Bentham, to have sent you the rest of Compositae this month, but it was impossible. A number of queries concerning ferns rendered it necessary to spend for 2 ...
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 George Bentham, 1867-08-21.
Bot garden 21/8/67. ¶ ¶ I send you, dear Mr Bentham, Box 33 by the Great Britain under the obliging care of the Captain, & through the kindess of Mess. Bright freight free. ¶ This consignment contin...
Ferdinand von Mueller to George Bentham, 1868-02-05.
Melbourne bot Garden ¶ 5/2/68. ¶ ¶ From the byefollowing memorandum & bill of loading you will perceive, dear Mr Bentham, that the " ¶ True Britain ¶ " brings you an other consignment of plants. I am...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Berthold Seemann, 1868-03-29.
¶ Having deprived the ¶ Buettneriaceae, ¶ some time since, of the genus ¶ Macarthuria ¶ , ¶ I make some return in referring to that Order ¶ Lachnostachys ¶ ( ¶ Pycnolachne ¶ , Turcz.). ¶ I had...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1869-03-06.
Melbourne bot. gard. ¶ 6/3 /69 ¶ ¶ By the Steamship Summersetshire, ¶ dear Dr Hooker, you will receive the 50th case of Museum-plant. It contains mainly Salsolaceae, therefore the rest of the Curvem...
Ferdinand von Mueller to George Bentham, 1869-08-13.
13/8/69 ¶ ¶ I am glad, dear Mr Bentham, that you so well proceed with the 5th vol. The arrangement you made in disposing of the species of Myoporinae seems very applicable. ¶ The views on the limits...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1869-09-06.
6/9/69 ¶ ¶ Let me express my best thanks, dear Dr Hooker, for the liberal sending of Wight's & Falconer's ¶ plants, all of great utility to me for references, whenever the occasions arise. I enclose...
Ferdinand von Mueller to George Bentham, 1870-05-15.
15/5/70. ¶ ¶ The arrival and perusal of your kind letter and the pages on Myoporinae, dear Mr Bentham, have given me very great pleasure. The still continued disorganisation of my Department renders ...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Alphonse de Candolle, 1878-10-24.
24/10/78. ¶ ¶ These lines, honored and dear Sir, are adressed to you from my sickbed, on which I have been thrown for some weeks, but I am gradually recovering and hope to move about again in a few d...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Edward Ramsay, 1882-08-30.
30/8/82. ¶ ¶ This day, dear Mr Ramsay, I have received the beautiful red seaweed (unfortunately without fruit) and the other algs, also the Clathrus? in Alcohol. All shall be examined and for all thi...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Alphonse de Candolle, 1883-10-24.
24/10/83 ¶ It may be of interest to you, honored Sir, to learn, that on my representations the Government of this Colony has purchased the Sonderian collections; these have arrived in 38 cases, and I ...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Graham Berry, 1884-09-11.
Melbourne, ¶ 11. Sept. 1884. ¶ The honorable Graham Berry, M.L.A., ¶ Chief Secretary. ¶ ¶ I have the honor to solicit your permission to have the lithographic work done for the volume on Myoporinae, ...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1884-10-31.
31/10/84. ¶ In preparing the Monography of Myoporinae, ¶ dear Sir Joseph, and revising the almost completed drawings for the lithographer, I find that I have no specimen of ¶ Myoporum brevipes ¶ , t...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Adolf Engler, 1885-07-13.
13/7/85 ¶ ¶ The last post, highly esteemed Professor, brought me your friendly letter of 31 May and also the accompanying circular letter. ¶ It probably does not require my assurance that I will gla...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Otto Tepper, 1885-08-12.
12/8/85 ¶ ¶ You will have wondered, esteemed Mr Tepper, that I have left your letter so long unanswered, especially since you sent me in such a magnanimous manner the normal specimens of Characeae an...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Asa Gray, 1885-09-08.
8/9/85. ¶ ¶ Again I have to thank you, dear Professor Gray, for spending some generous praise on one my works, this time what may be the last part of the Eucalyptography; ¶ — for altho' I have most ...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1885-12-28.
Melbourne ¶ 28 Dec. 1885. ¶ ¶ From "Nature" ¶ I learn, dear Sir Joseph, that Kew acquired the mainset of the Forster's plants from Liverpool. Would you favor me with a small fragment of ¶ Myoporum ...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Thomas Meehan, 1886-02-22.
22/2/86 ¶ ¶ This time, dear Professor Meehan, I send you some xylographic illustrations, made on various woods of New South Wales, where Mr Augustus Rudder has instituted these experiments. ¶ Perhap...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Jean Müller, 1886-03-05.
5/3/86. ¶ ¶ Best thanks, noble friend, for the kindness, in having devoted so much of your time to my last lichens! May Divine Providence preserve your strength and health for many years yet, so that...
Ferdinand von Mueller to the Hamburger Garten- und Blumenzeitung, 1886-04-19.
Enclosed I am sending you the cover sheet and one of the lithographic illustrations of my new work on the Myoporinae that illustrates 76 species of this family and of which publication will take place...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Eduard von Regel, 1886-08-09.
9/8/1886 ¶ ¶ Allow me to express my best wishes for your approaching birthday, noble friend, ¶ and with the congratulation let me combine the sincere desire that divine Providence will preserve you ...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Eduard von Regel, 1886-08-24.
24 August 1886 ¶ ¶ Do not be surprised, noble friend, if the quarto volume of the Myoporinae ¶ does not arrive for some time as the mailing is to be done by the Premier's Office through the Public L...
Ferdinand von Mueller to James Hector, 1886-09-04.
4/9/86. ¶ ¶ Let me thank you, dear Dr Hector, for the copy of your ¶ splendid ¶ Report on N.Z. Ichthyology as regards utilitarian purposes. ¶ I have handed it to the Chairman of the antarctic Comm...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Alphonse de Candolle, 1886-12-25.
Christmas-day / 1886. ¶ ¶ It is with much delight, hon. and venerable Sir, that I learn of the final arrangements made by you, for receiving the msc. of the Myoporinae in 1887. This will give me time...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Charles Moore, 1887-03-02.
Melbourne ¶ 2/3/87. ¶ ¶ It needs not my assurance, dear Mr Moore, that I will be happy, to aid in the elaboration of the Flora of New South Wales; but in order that no clashings or contradictions occ...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Francis Kyngdon, 1887-04-23.
23/4/87. ¶ Dear Sir ¶ ¶ It needs not my assurance, that I shall not fail, to place the R. S. of N.S.W. on the list of recipients when the text of the myopor. plants appears; but as I have undertaken ...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Alphonse de Candolle, 1887-11-18.
18/11/87. ¶ ¶ It is my pleasing duty, honored and venerable Sir, to acknowledge the receipt of the volume of your great series of monographies, containing the Ampelideae; and I beg to thank you for y...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Adolf Engler, 1887-12-25.
Christmas, ¶ 1887 ¶ ¶ It gives me pleasure, esteemed Professor, to send you with this post specimens of such Australian and New Zealand ¶ Ranunculus ¶ species, as far as such here can still be give...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Arthur Lucas, 1888-04-??.
¶ As particularly noteworthy should first be mentioned, that in conformity with the volume on Myoporinae a dozen decades of the 'Iconography of Australian Acacias' ¶ has been issued by Baron von Mue...
Ferdinand von Mueller to William Sewell, 1888-05-17.
17/5/88 ¶ ¶ In reply to your note of yesterday, ¶ dear Mr Sewell, let me inform you, that altho' copious notes of mine are available for the text-volume (I) of the myoporinous plants, I see no prosp...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Otto Nordstedt, 1890-01-21.
21/1/90 ¶ ¶ In my presidential speech, noble friend, for the Melbourne meeting of the great Australian ¶ Association for the Advancement of Science, I have mentioned especially that an illustrated m...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Otto Nordstedt, 1890-06-03.
3/6/90. ¶ ¶ I am indebted to you for your friendliness, esteemed Doctor, in having taken my proposal for an illustrated monograph of Characeae into such rapid consideration. ¶ ¶ ¶ The matter is ce...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Casimir de Candolle, 1893-06-13.
13/6/93. ¶ ¶ You will receive, dear M. de Candolle, an official message, conveyed by the hon Secr. of the Field-Naturalists Club of Victoria, expressive of our grief at the loss of your ¶ uncomparab...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Casimir de Candolle, 1894-03-12.
12/3/94. ¶ ¶ Let me thank you for your kind letter, ¶ dear M. de Candolle, and for all the friendly feelings towards me. I am afraid that I ¶ forgot ¶ a former request, to send Alchemilla; but the...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Jacob Agardh, 1894-03-31.
31/3/94 ¶ ¶ This week's mail, venerable Friend, just brought me your first Analecta for 1894. ¶ It is a wonderful work of an octogenarian! and proves the fresh liveliness of your capacity for work! ...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Casimir de Candolle, 1895-01-21.
21/1/95 ¶ ¶ It is my gratifying duty, dear Prof. De Candolle, to acknowledge the receipt of your kind letter ¶ and also of your retour-sending of Meliaceae, which all were brought by the excellent C...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Casimir de Candolle, 1895-09-17.
17/9/95 ¶ ¶ It is very pleasing to learn, that the record of the ¶ Flora of the World ¶ ¶ makes such quick and varied progress. I still add frequently to the data of the geographic distribution of...