To Edmund FitzGibbon   29 September 1858

Melbourne botanical and Zoological Gardens,

29 Sept. 1858.

Sir

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your communication, dated Sept. 25th,1 and beg to thank the City Council for adopting the measure, that bathing should not be tolerated in the Yarra Yarra, except on secluded spots and before the hours of 6 a.m. in summer and 7 a.m. in Winter.

But since neither the locality, frequented by the bathers, is secluded, nor by them properly adhered to the hours fixed by the Municipality, I beg to solicit, that a caution board may be erected on the banks of the Yarra, close to the new footbridge, to give the resolution of the council local publicity and practical effect.

I have the honor to be

Sir

your most obedient and humble servant

Ferd Mueller, M.D., PhD.,

Director of the zool. & botan. Garden.

 

E. G. FitzGibbon Esqr

Town Clerk &c &c &c.2

1
E. FitzGibbon to M, 25 September 1858.
2
See also M to E. FitzGibbon, 1 December 1858.

Please cite as “FVM-58-09-29,” 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 19 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/58-09-29