To Charles Pasley1    20 January 1858

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.

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

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 28 March 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/58-01-20