Melbourne bot Garden
1 Febr. 1858.
Sir
Being desirous to offer to the utmost of my means facility for instruction on botany, I pray your Honor will permit me to deposit a collection of botanical specimens at the public library of Melbourne, where they can be easier consulted than either at this office or at the University
It will however not lay in my power to furnish quite as large an herbarium than that deposited at the University Museum, or that with which I work at this department, but it may become gradually completed. I would with your Honors consent limit the collection to Victorian plants.
I have the honor to be,
Sir,
Your most obedient & humble servant
Ferd. Mueller.
The honorable the President of Land & publ. works &c &c &c1
Please cite as “FVM-58-02-01,” 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 20 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/58-02-01