Melbourne bot. & zool. Garden,
16. Sept. 59.
Sir
I have the honor to solicit, that you will be pleased to sanction the following expenditure in my establishment during the last quarter of the year.
| Salaries and wages (according to former scale) |
£1420 |
| Purchase of plants |
£50 |
| Expense of publishing works on indigenous plants of Victoria |
£140 |
| Fencing paddock, stabling and other incidental expenses |
£195 |
| Transfer of £150 from the vote of "forage & food for animals," to be expended in the construction of tanks & the requisite pipes for providing water to several parts of the garden and particularly also for the animals of the menagerie1 |
£150 |
I have the honor to be,
Sir,
your most obedient & humble servant
Ferd Mueller.
The honorable the Chief Secretary2
Please cite as “FVM-59-09-16a,” 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