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
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