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From Clement Hodgkinson to Ferdinand von Mueller   12 July 1860

Department of Lands & Survey

Melbourne, 12th. July, 1860.

Sir,

I have the honor to acknowledge receipt of your letter of the 6th instant in reply to my communication of the 4th. idem,1 and I am directed to inform you that Mr. Service considers it desirable that the names of the various animals in the Zoological Gardens should be exhibited and I am to request that you will have the goodness to adopt such an arrangement for this purpose as your judgment may suggest.

I have the honor to be,

Sir,

Your most obedt. Servant

Dy. S. General2 & Secretary3

F. Mueller Esq.

&c, &c, &c,

Melbourne.

1

See C. Hodgkinson to M, 4 July 1860 (in this edition as 60-07-04b), and the notes thereto.

2

Deputy Surveyor General.

3

There is no signature on the copy.

Please cite as “FVM-60-07-12b,” 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/60-07-12b