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Carl Wilhelmi to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1852-01-14.
Port Lincoln, 14 January 1852. ¶ Dear Doctor, ¶ ¶ I received your kind letter on 13 January ¶ and do not want to be amiss in replying, as I intend to remain here for another three to four weeks, and...
William Hooker to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1856-01-04.
Royal Gardens, Kew. ¶ Jan. 4. 1856 ¶ My dear Dr Mueller. ¶ ¶ Two days ago your most welcome letter of 3d Septr, ¶ written as you were on the point of quitting the "Monarch," to undertake your arduou...
Ferdinand von Mueller to John O'Shanassy, 1858-05-01.
Melbourne bot. Garden, ¶ 1. May 1858 ¶ Monthly report on the labours performed at the botanic Garden and at the office of the Govern. Botanist for the month of April 1858. ¶ ¶ The ground near and aro...
Ferdinand von Mueller to L. S. Hébert, 1862-04-24.
[The Agent General communicates a letter that he has received from Dr Mueller of Melbourne, dated 24 April, that announces the sending of various kinds of seeds and reiterates his thanks for the colle...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Frederick Barlee, 1867-10-28.
Albany, 28. Oct. 1867. ¶ ¶ This day, dear Mr Barlee, when returning from my excursion to Stirling's Range, I had the happiness of receiving your most kind letter, ¶ directed to this place. Let me as...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Frederick Barlee, 1869-02-28.
28/2/69 ¶ ¶ I hope, it will not be necessary, dear Mr Barlee, to await the arrival of your new Governor, before the new short expedition can be send out, as then the cool season would be lost! ¶ Do ...
Frederick Barlee to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1869-03-31.
Copy ¶ Perth, W.A. ¶ 31 March 1869 ¶ My dear Dr. Mueller ¶ ¶ I am happy to be able, in reply to your letter of 28th Febr. ¶ to say that your request, that Mr Monger's discoveries should be followed ...
Ferdinand von Mueller to James Grant, 1869-07-21.
Melbourne bot. Garden ¶ 21/7/69 ¶ Sir ¶ ¶ In compliance with your request I have the honor of reporting on Mr Carruthers proposition, to render the Zamias available for the preparation of starch and ...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1869-12-04.
4/12/69 ¶ ¶ I am very much pleased, dear Dr Hooker, that the ponderous Todea reached Kew in safety and was so welcome to you. ¶ It is certainly an attractive feature in any fern-collection & a singu...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Frederick Barlee, 1870-01-30.
Melbourne bot Garden ¶ 30/1/70. ¶ ¶ It is much to be regretted, dear Mr Barlee, that the proposition cannot yet this coming cool season be carried out, to connect the surveys about Carpentaria by som...
Wilhelm Sonder to Ferdinand von Krauss, 1870-09-06.
Hamburg 6 Sept 1870 ¶ Dear Friend! ¶ ¶ For some weeks I have hesitated to write to you, always hoping the regular communication by means of the railway would be reinstated. As I heard yesterday, howe...
Ferdinand von Mueller to William Guilfoyle, 1870-09-15.
15/9/70 ¶ ¶ Very gladly, dear Mr Guilfoyle, will I name the Aspidium (Nephrodium) after your worthy father, but the fragments are so crushed that I cannot work out a proper diagnosis from them, or as...
Ferdinand von Mueller to George Bentham, 1872-02-28.
Melbourne ¶ bot Garden ¶ 28/2/72 ¶ ¶ The next consignment will go to you, dear Mr Bentham, by the steamer Northumberland in the middle of March and will reach you therefore probably in May. If I even...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1873-03-25.
Melbourne bot garden ¶ 25/3/73 ¶ ¶ From the enclosed telegram ¶ you will perceive, dear Dr Hooker, that the hon. W. H. Walsh, the Minister of the Lands Department of Queensland, would have sent me a...
Ferdinand von Mueller to the Gardeners' Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette, 1873-04-??.
¶ It may interest some of your readers to know that I have proved the possibility of moving from distant localities very aged Cycad trunks, deprived of their leaves, and without any earth being left ...
Ferdinand von Mueller to the Gardeners' Chronicle, 1873-11-??.
¶ As in some instances the experiment of transplanting aged Cycad stems has failed through internal decay, I wish to relate the experience of Mr. Fitzalan on the subject—the gentleman who first, at m...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Lewis Bernays, 1873-11-08.
Melbourne, November 8, 1873. ¶ ¶ I gladly reply to the questions of your letter received this day, ¶ dear Mr Bernays. ¶ ¶ 1. The Cycadeae are not represented in Victoria. In a few months you will h...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Eduard Strasburger, 1874-06-15.
Melbourne, ¶ 15/6/74. ¶ ¶ It does not need my assurance, noble Sir, that I shall be happy to assist your important anatomical and morphological researches by supplying the raw materials from this con...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Eduard Strasburger, 1874-07-14.
Melbourne, ¶ 14 /7/74. ¶ ¶ With this month's mail I want to inform you, esteemed Professor, that with the help of several labourers I succeeded in hauling a large trunk of ¶ Dicksonia antarctica ¶ ...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Johan Areschoug, 1874-09-06.
Melbourne, ¶ 6/9/74. ¶ ¶ I am very pleased, my very dear Professor, that the two tree-fern trunks have made new fronds under your care. This shows how attentively the plants are treated in your garde...
Ferdinand von Mueller to the Gardeners' Chronicle, 1881-05-??.
I ¶ beg ¶ to send you an account of Encephalartos (Macrozamia) Moorei. These notes were kindly procured by Mr. G. E. Layton, the Secretary for Queensland at the Melbourne International Exhibition. I...
William Woolls to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1881-08-27.
Richmond N.S.W. ¶ Aug[u]st ¶ 27/ 81 ¶ My dear Baron, ¶ ¶ I am obliged for your letter of the 23rd. Inst. ¶ I have no means of getting Seeds of Bauera capitata, but should I have an opportunity, I w...
Hermann Kempe to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1881-10-31.
Hermannsburg ¶ 31 October 1881 ¶ Esteemed Baron! ¶ ¶ Enclosed I am again sending you some plants. They are all that I have already sent to you once or several times, but not yet received the special...
Ferdinand von Mueller to William Thiselton-Dyer, 1881-12-31.
Newyearseve 1881 ¶ ¶ I must have left you under a wrong impression, dear Mr Dyer, when you thought, that I did not show any ardor for aiding your important researches on the Cycadeae; but my faciliti...
Ferdinand von Mueller to William Thiselton-Dyer, 1882-05-08.
8/5/82 ¶ ¶ By this mail, dear Mr Dyer, I have forwarded photograms of: ¶ Macrozamia Denisonii ¶ ♀ ¶ from the Daintree-River. ¶ M. spiralis ¶ ♂ ¶ & ¶ ♀ ¶ from Port Jackson ¶ Cycas Normanbyana ¶...
Hermann Kempe to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1882-06-14.
Hermannsburg ¶ June 14. 1882 ¶ Respected Baron! ¶ ¶ I received various seeds from you with the last mail, such as maize, sorghum, sun flowers and grass seeds, for which I sincerely thank you. I fear...
Ferdinand von Mueller to William Thiselton-Dyer, 1882-08-16.
16/8/82. ¶ ¶ Only a few hurried lines this time, dear Mr Dyer, just before the close of the mail. The ¶ best ¶ , the dearest, the noblest of my friends in this part of the world passed suddenly away...
Archibald McDowall to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1882-12-06.
Queensland ¶ 6th December 1882 ¶ My dear Baron Von Mueller, ¶ ¶ I am now shipping three specimens of the Fraser's Isd ¶ Zamia, but at this time of year cannot get the ripe cones, but hope to do so s...
Archibald McDowall to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1883-02-21.
Queensland ¶ Maryborough ¶ 21 Feby 1883. ¶ My dear Baron, ¶ ¶ Re the Encephalartos Douglasii As far as I know it has no woolly substance on the base of the leaf stalks — but the young leaves (and ind...
Clarence Phillips to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1884-06-09.
Pine Hill ¶ June 9th 1884 ¶ To Baron Von Müller ¶ Curator Botanical Gardens ¶ Melbourne...
Ferdinand von Mueller to William Thiselton-Dyer, 1885-05-25.
25/5/85 ¶ ¶ By this post I am sending you, dear Mr Dyer, fragments of leaves and antheriferous and ovuliferous scales of a Macrozamia, to which I have given your honored name. ¶ Concerning this Zami...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Ralph Tate, 1885-06-22.
22/6/85 ¶ ¶ Best thanks, dear Professor, for your attentive kindness of giving me the additional information, concerning the Zamia at the W. end of the great Bight. ¶ I shall act on your suggestion,...
Ferdinand von Mueller to William Thiselton-Dyer, 1885-09-19.
19/9/85 ¶ ¶ For some time, dear Mr Dyer, no particular cause arose, to write to Sir Joseph or yourself; but now 2 or 3 subjects are on my mind concerning which I ought to write to Kew; hence these li...
Ferdinand von Mueller to William Thiselton-Dyer, 1890-10-21.
21/10/90. ¶ ¶ Am rejoycing, dear Mr Dyer, that your health improved in the light alpine air, in which respiration and oxygenation are so facilitated. There is a particular charm about ¶ alpine ¶ ve...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Jacob Agardh, 1893-01-15.
15/1/93. ¶ ¶ Yesterday, highly esteemed Professor, your letter of 5 December arrived here, ¶ and I have written immediately to Mr C. Moore, the director of the Sydney Botanical Garden, ¶ asking tha...