To John O'Shanassy1    20 July 1859

[20 July 1859

 

Forwards his Estimates for 1860]2

1
Letter not found; item is a register entry only.
2
The sum of £6,000 was put on the estimates for 1860: M's salary, £600; Assistant, £300; Curator, £300; wages of gardeners, laborers, collectors etc., £4,800. See Victoria, Legislative Assembly (1859) Estimates of the revenue and expenditure of the Government of Victoria, for the year 1860, Melbourne. An additional sum of £1,740 was later put on the estimates for departmental contingencies at the Botanic and Zoological Gardens. See Victoria, Legislative Assembly (1859) Additional estimates of expenditure for 1860, Melbourne.

Please cite as “FVM-59-07-20a,” 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 26 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/59-07-20a