[inquiring if the Board would dispose of the above-mentioned house to the Directors of the Botanic Gardens.1]
An expenditure of £30 for the purchase and a further £20 for the removal of the house to the Botanic Garden was subsequently approved (see M to C. Duffy, 30 July 1858, and T. Balmain to M, 13 August 1858). In his monthly report at the beginning of September 1858, M reported that the cottage had been transferred to the Garden, where it would be 'an additional security against pilfering and particularly guard the future contents of the Palm-house'; see M to J. O'Shanassy, September 1858 (in this edition as 58-09-00a).
Letter not found. For the text given here, see the report of the meeting of the Board held on 29 July 1858, in Age (Melbourne), 30 July 1858, p. 5. The item is preceded by: 'The following letters were read:— ... From the Committee of Management of the Melbourne Hospital, requesting the removal of the building situated in the Hospital reserve, in Lonsdale Street. From Dr. Mueller,...'.
Please cite as “FVM-58-07-00g,” 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