To William Nicholson1    26 January 1860

Melbourne botanic & zoologic Garden,

26 January 1860.

Sir

I have the honor to solicit, that you will be pleased to sanction the following expenditure during the current quarter of the year: viz.

 

Salaries and wages (according to the scale of payment sanctioned in the previous quarter)

£1500. - . - .

Expense of publishing in Melbourne a work on the indigenous plants of Victoria

£80. - . - .

Purchase of plants

£38. - . - .

Purchase of animals

£72. - . - .

Forage

£42. - . - .

Incidental expenses

£32. - . - .

I have the honor to be

Sir

your most obedient servant

Ferd. Mueller.

 

The Honorable the Chief Secretary

&c &c &c2

1
MS written by Carl Wilhelmi and signed by M.
2
Approval for M's request was minuted on the file.

Please cite as “FVM-60-01-26b,” 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/60-01-26b