From Thomas Balmain   17 March 1857

17th March 1857

Sir,

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 26th February addressed to Captn Pasley, and in reply am directed by Mr Duffy1 to convey to you authority for an expenditure not exceeding one hundred pounds, in the purchase of Plants &c for the Melbourne Botanical Gardens, with the understanding that there will not be funds to meet this outlay until the Estimates for the current year are voted.

It will be necessary to admit of the vouchers for this expenditure being hereafter passed at the Treasury that receipts be produced in each instance for the several purchases made, and that details of the articles bought be also furnished.

(Signed) T. C. Balmain

 

Dr Muëller

Govt Botanist of Victoria

Sydney.

1
Duffy replaced Pasley as Victoria's Commissioner of Public Works on 11 March 1857.

Please cite as “FVM-57-03-17,” in Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller, edited by R.W. Home, Thomas A. Darragh, A.M. Lucas, Sara Maroske, D.M. Sinkora†, J.H. Voigt† and Monika Wells accessed on 5 May 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/57-03-17