To Frederick Standish   1 September 1858

Melbourne botan. & zool. Garden,

1. Sept. 1858.

Sir

I have the honor of bringing under your notice, that at South Yarra & likewise occasionally at Richmond goats & other domestic animals are allowed to range over the streets & public reserves.

If this is contrary to the existing police-regulations, I should be extremly obliged, for your giving orders to the police at the respective stations, to suppress a custom, which becomes seriously destructive to my plantations.

I have the honor to be

sir,

your humblest servant

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

Director of the zool. & bot. Gardens.

 

The honorable the Chief Commissioner of police1

1
Instructions were minuted for M's complaint to be acted upon.

Please cite as “FVM-58-09-01a,” 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 5 May 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/58-09-01a