Melbourne bot. & zool. Garden,
26 June 1860.
Sir
I have the honor to solicit, that you will be pleased to place at my disposal the undermentioned sums for defraying the expenditure in this department during the next quarter of the year.
| Wages, according to the scale of the preceeding quarter with the sanction of payment of an additional superior gardener at the rate of 12/ pr diem |
£1120 |
| Employment of labor by the job out of the wages fund |
80 |
| Publishing work on indigenous plants |
80 |
| Purchase of plants |
50 |
| Forage |
40 |
| Incidental expenses |
20 |
I pray further to be permitted to charge to the incidental fund, applied for, such accounts as remain unpaid from last quarter, the sum available having been quite inadequate to meet the inavoidable casual expenditure during the last months.1
I have the honor to be
Sir
your most obedient & humble servant
Ferd. Mueller.
The Honorable the Chief Secretary
&c &c &c
Please cite as “FVM-60-06-26a,” 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