Melbourne bot. & zool Garden,
6. June 1860.
Sir
I have the honor to solicit, that you will be pleased to place at my disposal the sum of eighty pounds Sterling out of the votes for wages of this establishment for defraying expenses for such occasional works as cannot be performed by daily labour & therefore regularly charged in the ordinary paysheets of monthly expenditure. I beg further to pray, that I may be authorized by your Honor to include in the accounts, to be liquidated out of the above sum, such claims as arose in making preparations for the temporary charge & for the safe reshipment of the Salmon ova or fry, expected to arrive pr "S. Curling" for the Tasmanian Government,1 should no other vote be available for this purpose.
I have the honor to be,
Sir,
your most obedient & humble servant,
Ferd. Mueller.
The honorable the Chief Secretary.
See M to W. Henty, 15 May 1860. Approval for M's requests was minuted to this letter.
Please cite as “FVM-60-06-06,” 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