Melbourne bot. Garden
21. March 1858
Sir
I have the honor to solicit your permission of closing the botanic gardens for visitors on Friday and Saturday morning in this week, and to levy at the gates a fee for the admission to the Horticultural Society's autumnal exhibition during the afternoons of those days, such having been likewise the custom on all former occasions.
The fee fixed for visitors, who are not members of the society, is to be 2/6d from 1 o'cl. p.m. and 1/ from 3 o'cl. p.m.
I have the honor to be,
Sir,
your most obedient and humble servant
Ferd. Mueller
Direct. of the bot. Gard. & Chairm. of the Counc. of Hort. Soc.
The honorable the Chief Secretary
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Please cite as “FVM-58-03-21,” 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 25 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/58-03-21