To John Moore   6 October 1859

Melbourne bot. & zool. Garden,

6. Oct. 1859

Sir

I have the honor to solicit, that you will be pleased to devide the sum of £150 – –, transferred by the Hon the Chief Secretary from the vote of forage to the votes of "tools & labels" and to that of "stores & timber" as follows

to tools & labels

£84.8/—

to stores & timber

£65.12.0

£150.0.0

I have the honor to solicit your favorable consideration of this proposal, the department standing greatly in need of the articles, for which the above sums are required.

I have the honor to be,

Sir,

your most obedient & humble servant

Ferd. Mueller.

 

Mr Undersecretary Moore.1

1
On 10 October 1859 Moore minuted: 'The sum of £150 was on the 3rd instant transferred from the vote for Forage to that for Stores, by an order of the Governor in Council. I do not therefore think it would now be right to apply for another Order altering the previous one.' M replied: 'By reference to my application for the transfer of the £150 alluded to, it will be observed (vide letter dated 22. Sept 1859) that the sum was solicited to defray stores, timber & tools. Not being at the time aware, that an amalgamation of votes was unadvisable, I did not apply for separate authorities, but pray now that such may be granted according to the Government Storekeepers estimates, & confidently hope that since this arrangement consist evidently only in the alteration of form the votes of stores & timber and tools & labels being evidently almost identical'.

Please cite as “FVM-59-10-06,” 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 20 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/59-10-06