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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...
Wilhelm Sonder to Friedrich Miquel, 1854-06-07.
Hamburg 7 June 1854 ¶ Most esteemed Sir! ¶ ¶ After I was prevented for a long time through business from gathering together the Mueller plants, I have finally forwarded them with the steamship ¶ de ...
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...
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...
George Bentham to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1863-12-24.
25, WILTON PLACE, S.W ¶ Decr 24/63 ¶ My dear Sir ¶ ¶ I have again made little progress and shall not get on very quick till I have done the Leguminosae for Genera Plantarum. ¶ I have settled the Gal...
Ferdinand von Mueller to George Bentham, 1864-12-24.
Melbourne bot Garden ¶ 24/12/64. ¶ Dear Sir. ¶ ¶ I have to reply to your letter of the 12 Oct., ¶ arrived within the last week. The receipt of the proof sheets of the second vol. of the flora Austra...
Ferdinand von Mueller to George Bentham, 1865-01-??.
¶ The orders you desire to be sent are nearly ready, but I shall retain them yet for some few months, in order that their absense from here is not lengthened to an unnecessary period, the Myrtaceae, ...
Ferdinand von Mueller to George Bentham, 1865-02-24.
Melbourne bot Garden ¶ 24/2/65. ¶ ¶ The enclosed plant, dear Mr Bentham, is to bear Mr Edw. Wilson's name. Whether it is a true Eugenia or possibly a Barringtonia or of an other genus I have at this ...
Ferdinand von Mueller to George Bentham, 1865-04-21.
21/4/65. ¶ ¶ I presume, dear Mr Bentham, that one of my letters to you must have strayed; for I am under the impression, that I suggested Mr Will. Woolls's election into the Linnean Society. ¶ He is...
Ferdinand von Mueller to William Hooker, 1865-06-09.
9/6/65 ¶ Dear Sir William. ¶ ¶ I have sent a box with supplemental Myrtaceae, Araliaceae, Loranthaceae, Onagreae, ¶ Rubiaceae Cucurbitaceae & a few other calyciflorous orders this day pr Sussex to y...
George Bentham to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1865-11-19.
25, WILTON PLACE, S.W. ¶ Novr 19/65 ¶ My dear Sir ¶ ¶ The Australian mail having arrived earlier than usual I have before me yours of the 22 Sept. as well as that of the 21 Augt received since I last...
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, 1866-02-05.
5./2./66. ¶ Dear Mr Bentham. ¶ ¶ I have done a little among gnaphaloid Compositae, but the work of defining the genera anew involves much patient research extended not only to the Australian but also...
George Bentham to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1866-02-18.
25, WILTON PLACE, S.W. ¶ London ¶ 18 Feby 1866 ¶ My dear Sir ¶ ¶ The "Yorkshire" by which you sent the second box of Compositae is I see reported as arrived so that I presume in a few days we shall h...
George Bentham to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1866-03-19.
25, WILTON PLACE, S.W. ¶ March 1866 ¶ My dear Sir ¶ ¶ Your second box of Compositae (Aster etc) has safely arrived per Yorkshire and has reached Kew. ¶ ¶ Your letter of the 25th Decr ¶ reached me t...
Ferdinand von Mueller to George Bentham, 1866-03-24.
24/3/66. ¶ ¶ I have been so harrassed, dear Mr Bentham, during this rainless season, that any close application to phytographic work was absolutely out of the question. Now since the summer passed I ...
Ferdinand von Mueller to George Bentham, 1866-04-23.
St George's Day 1866. ¶ ¶ The "Lincolnshire", dear Mr Bentham, has not yet arrive, though overdue; I trust that nothing happened to her, & that the 3 cases with Eucalypti, the most important section ...
George Bentham to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1866-05-18.
25, WILTON PLACE, S.W. ¶ 18 May 1866 ¶ My dear Sir ¶ ¶ I have to acknowledge yours of the 5th Feby ¶ received a few days after I last wrote. I am at present overwhelmed with work. Besides the Flora ...
Ferdinand von Mueller to George Bentham, 1866-06-??.
Note for Mr Bentham ¶ ¶ I send a new genus of Rubiaceae from Cape York. It is nearer Morinda than Mussaenda, though it has quite the habit & petaloid large floral leaves of the latter. I have called ...
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 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 Joseph Hooker, 1866-10-25.
25/10/66 ¶ ¶ I owe you, dear Dr Hooker, my cordial gratulation to the well merited tribute, rendered to you by the two great & venerable centres of learning of Britain. ¶ These acknowledgements of t...
Joseph Hooker to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1870-11-13.
Novr 13 /70 ¶ Dear Dr Mueller ¶ ¶ I have several letters from you, but must crave excuses for so long delaying to answer — the fact being that all my spare time goes to getting out Rubiaceae for Gen....
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 ...
Joseph Hooker to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1871-04-04.
P & O. St. V. Massilia ¶ April 4 /71. ¶ Dear Dr Mueller ¶ ¶ I am on my way for a much needed relaxation to Tangier (via Gibraltar) where I shall spend some weeks & hope to get some good plants. I wro...
George Bentham to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1871-12-25.
25, WILTON PLACE. S.W. ¶ Decr 25 /71 ¶ My dear Sir ¶ ¶ I can now at last report that I am fairly at work at the sixth vol. of Flora Australiensis ¶ and if health and strength admit hope to go on ste...
Joseph Hooker to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1872-06-22.
June 22 /72. ¶ My dear Baron ¶ ¶ I have several letters to thank you for, which I shall now proceed to discuss. ¶ ¶ I have already informed you of the safe arrival of the noble Tree Ferns & of our h...
Joseph Hooker to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1872-11-20.
Kew Novr 20 /72. ¶ My dear V. Mueller ¶ ¶ I am again very deep in your debt part cause of which you will no doubt kindly excuse attributing it to the loss I have sustained in the death of Lady Hooker...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Asa Gray, 1873-04-22.
Melbourne bot Garden ¶ 22/4/73 ¶ ¶ Many years ago, dear Dr. Gray, our late friend Dr Steetz wrote to me, ¶ that it was always a festival-day to him when a letter arrived from you; and really so is i...
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...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Jean Müller, 1878-06-10.
10/6/78 ¶ ¶ I have still not acknowledged the receipt of your kind consignment of selected dry plants, dear Professor, but they arrived here only two weeks ago. Very gladly shall I continue the excha...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Decaisne, 1878-07-08.
8/7/78. ¶ ¶ I merely write a few lines, dear Prof De Caisne, to say, that I have forwarded to the Institute by this post a copy of the English Edition (enlarged by me) of Wittsteins Chemistry of plan...
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 Odoardo Beccari, 1879-04-05.
5/4/79 ¶ Herewith, dear Dr Beccari, I send you the fruits of a new Areca from Trinity Bay. ¶ The species is allied to A. triandra & A. oxycarpa. I have sent the description to Dr von Regels Garten-Fl...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Odoardo Beccari, 1880-02-05.
5/2/80. ¶ Your consignment of Sumatra-plants, dear Dr Beccari, has arrived safely, ¶ and I thank you for your kindness of contributing them to my collections, which were hitherto poor in material fro...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Maurice Holtze, 1881-??-??.
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George Bentham to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1883-04-25.
25 ¶ Wilton Place, London ¶ , S. W., ¶ April 25, 1883 ¶ . ¶ My Dear Sir ¶ , — ¶ ¶ I have to thank you for your ¶ Systematic Census of Australian Plants ¶ , ¶ received yesterday. The work is beauti...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1885-03-11.
11/3/85 ¶ ¶ It has not been often during the last 30 years, dear Sir Joseph, that I have troubled the Kew-establishment by asking for comparisons of critical plants, as I do not wish, to give any tro...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1891-02-22.
22/2/91. ¶ ¶ Hardly ever in the 40 years of my departmental intercourse with Kew, dear Sir Joseph, have I encroached on your time for consultations about the systematic positions of any plants; but I...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1891-02-24.
24/2/91 ¶ ¶ Quite recently, dear Sir Joseph, I wrote to you about a supposed Wendlandia with basal insertion of stamens. ¶ As perhaps an example in the opposite way I like to send you, what may be a...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Jean Müller, 1893-11-18.
18/11/93. ¶ ¶ Since you, highly esteemed friend, have worked on the Rubiaceae of South America, ¶ I would like to ask you to tell me whether the genus ¶ Euosmia ¶ HBK. is permanent. J. Hooker knew...