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
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