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From Ferdinand von Mueller to Charles Pasley   20 Jan 18581

Melbourne botanic garden

20 January 1858.

Sir

I have the honor to inform you, that it would be very desirable to extend the botanical examination of our colony to the sources of the La Trobe river, and I beg to solicit your permission for leaving the botanical gardens for a period of not exceeding two weeks, in order to performe this labour. Should this application be favoured with your sanction, I would propose to start before the end of this week.

I have the honor to be,

Sir

your most obedient and humblest servant

Ferd Mueller.

The honorable the Chief Commissioner of public Works &c. &c. &c.

1

MS written by Carl Wilhelmi and signed by M. See also M to W. Haines, 20 January 1858.

2

This letter was also registered in the Public Works Department as No. 372, unit 4, VPRS 963, PROV.

Please cite as “FVM-58-01-20,” 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 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/58-01-20