From William Wardle to Ferdinand von Mueller   12 July 1860

12 July 1860

P. F.1 That the tender of E Altmann & Co as above has been accepted for £173.2

Sd for I G3 W. Stokes.

Dr Müeller

Pro Forma?

The tender was for furniture for the Museum at the Botanic Garden for £173 (No. 60/2228, unit 5, p. 481, VPRS 975/P2, Public Record Office, Victoria). M. to J. Francis, 6 June 1860 (in this edition as 60-06-06c) is an earlier letter about furniture.

Inspector General. Charles Pasley, from whom previous similar communications had been received, 'conditionally resigned' on 31 May 1860, with leave on full pay until 31 December; William Wardle, Chief Architect and Inspector of Public Works, was appointed Acting Inspector General from 1 June (Victoria, Statistics for the Colony of Victoria, Parliamentary Paper 1861, no. 2, p. 45).

Please cite as “FVM-60-07-12a,” 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 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/60-07-12a