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Ferdinand von Mueller to John Foster, 1854-03-10.
Avon, 10. March 1854. ¶ Sir ¶ ¶ I have the honor to inform you for communication to his Excellency the Governor, that I proceeded on my botanical expedition since my last report (dated Albury 15 Jan....
Ferdinand von Mueller to William Hooker, 1857-06-11.
Melbourne, bot. garden, 11. June 1857 ¶ My dear Sir William ¶ ¶ Only yesterday I had the pleasure of recieving your kind letters dated Febr. 2. and Jan 4. 1856, both having missed us when forwarded b...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1863-09-25.
25/9/63. ¶ Dear Dr Hooker. ¶ ¶ I resume our somewhat interrupted correspondence by a few hurriedly written lines, as I am very anxious to get through your influence as one of the jurors of the last n...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1866-03-23.
23/3/66 ¶ Dear Dr Hooker ¶ ¶ I have to reply to your friendly note of 13. jan. ¶ We had no rain to speak of for 7 or 8 months & thus with a very limited water supply (having to pay for water) and mo...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1866-08-20.
20/8/66 ¶ ¶ Your two kind notes of the 19 & 30 June, dear Dr Hooker have arrived. ¶ I am collecting more Orchid- and Drosera-tubers for you, but it will be best to allow the plants, when put into ea...
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 Berthold Seemann, 1867-05-??.
¶ I should like to introduce not only to the Lagoon in our botanic gardens and its banks but also to suitable localities in our mountain glens, lakes, etc., some of the very ornamental European swamp...
Ferdinand von Mueller to René Lenormand, 1867-05-27.
Botanic Garden, Melbourne ¶ 27 May 67 ¶ ¶ I would especially like to introduce here some of the more pretty rural flowers of Europe, not only to cultivate in our botanic garden but also to place them...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Filippo Parlatore, 1867-05-27.
Melbourne Botanic Garden, ¶ 27 May 1867 ¶ Dear Sir, ¶ ¶ I am particularly anxious to introduce here some of our European field and water plants etc., which would probably thrive quite well here in su...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Eduard Fenzl, 1868-06-18.
Melbourne Botanic Garden, ¶ 18 June 1868. ¶ ¶ I am almost ashamed, revered Professor, to come before you, as I have done extremely little for you in recent times. After my long illness, ¶ which caus...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Johan Lange, 1868-06-18.
Melbourne Botanic Garden, ¶ 18 June 1868. ¶ ¶ I have recently, revered Professor, dispatched with the ship Essex 288 species of freshly collected seeds to your Garden via Dr Sonder in Hamburg. ¶ Adm...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Otto Lindberg, 1868-07-17.
Melbourne bot Garden ¶ 17/7/68. ¶ ¶ The musci & lichenastra, dear Professor Lindberg, which I promised to you on loan ¶ have been sent by the Anglesey, which Ship left for London last week, where sh...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1868-11-06.
[6]/11/68 ¶ ¶ I have to thank you, dear Dr Hooker, for a precious present of the volume of poor Harvey's genera. ¶ I cultivate here so many South African plants, that the volume is to me of enormous...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Duncan Gillies, 1873-02-13.
Melbourne botanic Garden, ¶ 13/2/73. ¶ Sir ¶ ¶ In compliance with the request, conveyed through your communication of the 8th instant, ¶ I have the honor to transmit to you a return of the nursery p...
Ferdinand von Mueller to the Gardeners' Chronicle, 1889-07-??.
¶ The ascent of the Owen Stanley Ranges in New Guinea to their very summit, recently accomplished by Sir ¶ William Macgregor ¶ , demonstrates the occurrence of an almost alpine vegetation between el...