To John O'Shanassy¹    July 1858

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The Melbourne Botanic and Zoological Gardens estimates for 1859 (ordered to be printed 14 October 1858) included £6,200 for salary and wages (M's salary as Government Botanist with quarters was £600), £5,260 for contingencies, £1000 towards the erection of a museum and lecture room, £600 for the erection of lodges at the Zoological Gardens, £1000 for materials for planting and draining the Zoological Gardens and £500 for cages and stables for animals. See Victoria, Legislative Assembly (1858) Estimates of the revenue and expenditure of the Government of Victoria for the year 1859, Melbourne, pp. 32, 60. The sum of £500 for contingencies was later added to the estimates (ordered to be printed 3 February 1859). See Victoria, Legislative Assembly (1859) Additional estimates for the year 1859, and fourth further supplementary estimates for the year 1858, Melbourne, p. 5.