To [...] Riley   4 May 1858

Melbourne bot. Garden

4. May 1858.

Sir

I have the honor to solicit, that I may be permitted to receive for the botanical gardens some manure from the Port Phillip Farmers Society Cattle yard.

I have the honor to be,

Sir,

your most obedient and humble servant

Ferd. Mueller, M.D., Ph.D.,

Gov. Botanist & Director of the bot. Gardens.

 

Mr Riley,

Town Clerk of Melbourne1

1
Melbourne’s Town Clerk was Edmund FitzGibbon and it was he who responded to M’s request; see E. FitzGibbon to M, 8 May 1858. Riley may have been one of FitzGibbon’s subordinates. There was a Councillor at the time named Francis Reilly, but it is hard to see why M would have written to him on this subject or addressed him as ‘Town Clerk’.

Please cite as “FVM-58-05-04,” 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 19 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/58-05-04