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Ferdinand von Mueller to Eduard Fenzl, 1855-04-05.
Botanic Garden, Melbourne, ¶ 5 April 1855. ¶ Esteemed Professor, ¶ ¶ To my greatest delight I heard from Dr Sonder some time ago, that you wanted to dedicate a part of your so precious time to work o...
Ferdinand von Mueller to William Hooker, 1857-08-10.
Melbourne bot Garden, 10. Aug 1857. ¶ My dear Sir William. ¶ ¶ No European mail having arrived since the despatch of my July letters, I have but little to communicate. Even little botanically, for th...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Eduard Fenzl, 1858-02-03.
Melbourne, Botanic Garden, ¶ 3 February 1858. ¶ Revered Professor, ¶ ¶ Filled with the desire to extend the communications of this Garden to the most important botanic gardens of Europe, I take the l...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Eduard Fenzl, 1858-09-14.
Melbourne, ¶ zoologic-botanic Garden, ¶ 14 September 1858. ¶ Revered Professor, ¶ ¶ Everybody who writes about you, and everybody who has the good fortune to be in personal communication with you, pr...
Ferdinand von Mueller to John Lindley, 1859-02-05.
Melbourne botanic and zoologic ¶ Garden, 5. febr 1859 ¶ My Dear Sir ¶ ¶ A few days ago I had the great pleasure of receiving your highly valuable "folia orchidacea", ¶ a really classic work, for the...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1859-02-14.
Melbourne bot.& zool Garden ¶ 14 Febr 1859. ¶ My dear Dr Hooker. ¶ ¶ Having received from my Colonial bookseller lately No 7 of your much admired Tasm. Flor, ¶ I continue as on former occasions to o...
Ferdinand von Mueller to George Bentham, 1862-01-24.
Melbourne bot & zool. Garden ¶ 24 Jan. 62. ¶ My dear Mr Bentham. ¶ ¶ I am highly gratified with your very kind communication received by last mail and the interesting remarks on Australian Botany, wh...
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, 1868-06-14.
14/6/68. ¶ I owe you, dear Mr Bentham, an ¶ ¶ answer to your kind letter of 16 April, which was coming here later than usual. I feel indebted for your and Dr Hookers remarks on the Apostasia, which ...
Ferdinand von Mueller to George Bentham, 1868-07-14.
Bot. Gard. Melbourne ¶ 14/7/68 ¶ ¶ It is quite a relief to my mind, dear Mr Bentham, to learn by the telegrams of this mail, that ¶ all ¶ the Boxes bringing material for volume IV have safely arriv...
Ferdinand von Mueller to George Bentham, 1869-01-01.
Newyearsday 1869 ¶ ¶ In presenting to you, dear Mr Bentham, late as it will come to you my newyears gratulation in all cordiality, I trust, that the year coming & those following may bring you again ...
Ferdinand von Mueller to George Bentham, 1869-02-27.
27/[2]/69. ¶ ¶ It was my intention, dear Mr Bentham, to have sent an other case of Museum-plants to you by the Essex, but so much unforeseen work intervened, that I could not g[e]t it quite ready, an...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1869-03-06.
Melb. bot Garden ¶ 6/3/69 ¶ ¶ By the S.S. Summersetshire, ¶ dear Dr Hooker, you will receive the 50th case with Museum-plants. It contains mainly Salsolaceae, therefore the rest of the Curvembryonat...
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, 1869-03-28.
28/3/69 ¶ ¶ I am glad, dear Mr Bentham, to receive already the 30 copies of vol IV, which have been distributed by the Government to public institutions, ministers of the Crown and the few principle ...
Ferdinand von Mueller to George Bentham, 1870-01-29.
29/1/70 ¶ ¶ Since last writing to you, dear Mr Bentham, I have examined most of the Austr. Liliaceae, and thereby a good deal of new knowledge is gained. ¶ Endlichers Thysanotus micranthus belongs n...
Ferdinand von Mueller to George Bentham, 1870-07-10.
10/7/70. ¶ ¶ I have again written my views on that portion of the work, dear Mr Bentham, which you forwarded to me by the mail just arrived. I am pleased with the whole arrangement and the details, a...
Ferdinand von Mueller to the Gardeners' Chronicle, 1878-09-29.
Hay, Murrumbidgee ¶ ¶ I write from a far inland little township of New South Wales, after my return from the Lachlan River, where I wished particularly at this spring season to trace the minute annua...
Ferdinand von Mueller to the Gardeners' Chronicle, 1878-10-11.
Melbourne: ¶ Oct ¶ . 11 ¶ I have already written to you from the Murrumbidgee River about the extraordinary frequency of two of the dwarf salt-bushes from the Murrumbidgee to the Lachlan River, and ...
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, 1882-12-01.
1/12/82. ¶ ¶ In the examination of some Salsolaceae, dear Mr Tepper, I have also carefully investigated your plants numbered 624 and 755. It is ¶ Rhagodia preissii ¶ Moq., which is new for South Au...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Otto Tepper, 1882-12-03.
3/12/82 ¶ ¶ I am not quite certain, dear Mr Tepper, whether I have given you the names of all your Salsolaceae. ¶ ¶ 847, 848, 849 & 850 = ¶ Atriplex paludosum ¶ ¶ RBr ¶ ♂ ¶ & ¶ ♀ ¶ ¶ 796. ¶ ...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Ralph Tate, 1882-12-03.
3/12/82 ¶ ¶ As I am apt to loose sight of plants, dear Prof. Tate, which need as additional to be inserted in your Census, ¶ I just mention, that I have identified Chenolea Preissii (Bassia Preissii...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Ralph Tate, 1882-12-06.
6/12/82. ¶ ¶ Your letter of 29. Nov ¶ just reached me, dear Professor, and I feel sure, that your journey will have given many interesting results as well botanical as geological. ¶ ¶ In revising t...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Ralph Tate, 1883-10-01.
31/9/83. ¶ ¶ The Craspedia-like plant, sent by you latterly, ¶ dear Prof. Tate, is Calocephalus platycephalus; the second Podocoma is merely a variety; I know the transitory states. Herewith a diagn...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Edward Ramsay, 1887-04-18.
18/4/87. ¶ ¶ No poison-cases from Tribulus terrestris are on record, dear Dr Ramsay, though the herbage of various species of the allied genus Zygophyllum proved deleterious as well in Australia as A...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Maiden, 1887-11-??.
¶ [Mr. Maiden stated that among the plants collected up till now by Mr. Bäuerlen, … were ten species not hitherto known from New South Wales, and these he wished on behalf of Baron von Mueller, K.C.M...
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 Thiselton-Dyer, 1888-04-09.
9/4/88. ¶ ¶ I am not sure, dear Mr Dyer, whether I have pointed out to you already, that the seeds, which some months ago were sent to you as those of Acacia polybotrya, ¶ belong to a very different...
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 William Thiselton-Dyer, 1890-02-18.
18/2/90 ¶ ¶ A few hurried lines only, dear Mr Dyer, to say: ¶ ¶ 1, that the Livistona of Gipps-Land is undoubtedly L. australis. The shape of the leaves alters somewhat in age; thus you will likely ...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Sereno Watson, 1890-05-06.
6/5/90. ¶ This day, dear Prof Watson, arrived the new edition of Gray's Manuel, ¶ Manual? i.e. A. Gray (1890). ¶ which you in conjunction with Prof Coulter and with the aid of local workers have been...
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 Ralph Tate, 1890-07-06.
6/7/90 ¶ ¶ Among other work this day, dear Prof. Tate, in the quietness of Sunday, I have looked at some of your plants. You sent a curious Maba from the Adelaide-River, ¶ which I will carefully com...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Ralph Tate, 1890-07-18.
18/7/90 ¶ ¶ In finishing the 8th decade of the Salsolaceae, ¶ dear Prof Tate, I come across your Bassia uniflora, gathered 11/6/83 at Lake Torrens. ¶ It is not the plant of RBr. (Sclerolaena uniflo...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Ralph Tate, 1890-07-24.
24/7/90 ¶ ¶ The Bassia Tatei, dear Professor, remains firm in all the specimens; so it has gone at once to the lithographer. ¶ ¶ Kindly look over your species of Corysanthes carefully, to see, wheth...
Ferdinand von Mueller to William Thiselton-Dyer, 1890-08-04.
4/8/90 ¶ ¶ Within the last days, dear Mr Dyer, I received a large number of spare-specimens of Austr. Algs from Mr Bracebr. Wilson, which I have sorted into sets. The largest set I have this day desp...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Otto Tepper, 1890-09-12.
12/9/90. ¶ ¶ Dear Mr Tepper, your letter of 9th of this month ¶ just reached me. The Leguminosa that you send is without flower and fruit; it will probably be obtainable again in the course of summe...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Eugene Hilgard, 1894-12-14.
14/12/94. ¶ ¶ I was very pleased, esteemed fellow countryman, to get your kind letter and the information about ¶ Rumex hymenosepalus ¶ through the 2 papers that you have sent me. I will even be ab...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Eugene Hilgard, 1896-02-14.
14/2/96. ¶ ¶ As I am under the impression, highly esteemed Professor, that you do not yet have the West African ¶ wonder grass ¶ ( ¶ Panicum spectabile ¶ ) over there, which I have introduced into ...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Eugene Hilgard, 1896-03-07.
7/3/96. ¶ ¶ Enclosed I am sending you some seeds (in the fruits) of ¶ Atriplex semibaccatum ¶ , esteemed Professor, and I request you to tell me whether it is the genuine ¶ A. semibaccatum ¶ , that...
Ferdinand von Mueller to the Gardeners' Chronicle, 1896-09-??.
¶ [The depressed financial condition of the colony hampered him in his publications, but in his last letter to us he mentions his intention to resume at once the publication of his monograph of the C...