Melbourne botanic & zoologic Garden,
25. July 1860.
Sir
I have the honor to solicit your favorable consideration of placing on the supplementary estimates for 1860 the sum of £65.1/9d (sixty five pounds one shilling and nine pences Sterling), being the amount incurred for expenses in providing the necessary prearrangements for the temporary keeping and subsequent reshipment of the Salmon ova, which we anticipated to arrive pr "S. Curling" for the Tasmanian Government.
The arrangements made for the above purpose as detailed in several of my monthly reports having been approved of by your Honor, I thought the honorable the Executive Council of Victoria would probably disapprove of my forwarding the accounts of expenses incurred to the Tasmanian Government, particularly as the experiment of the introduction was in this instance a failure and had also caused considerable outlay to the authorities in Hobarton.
Under this consideration I have become directly responsible for the liquidation of the claims alluded to, and shall at once settle them, perfectly satisfied with an reimbursement after the supplementary vote has passed, should your Honors commands be favorable to such a course.1
I beg to annex a communication from the Tasmanian Government respecting the introduction of Salmon.2
I have the honor to be,
Sir,
your most obedient and humble servant
Ferd. Mueller.
The honorable the Chief Secretary
&c &c &c
MS file annotation by Nicholson, 10 August 1860: 'I think provision should be made on the supplementary estimates'. The sum was granted. See Victoria, Legislative Assembly (1861) Supplementary estimates of expenditure for the year 1860 (Victoria, Parliamentary papers, session 1860-1, vol. 2, no. B1).
W. Henty to M, 30 June 1860 (in this edition as 60-06-30a).
Please cite as “FVM-60-07-25b,” 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