Melbourne bot. & zool. Garden,
31 Aug. 60.
Sir
I have the honor to solicit, that you will be pleased to permit me expending the sum of eighty pound Sterling, set apart under authority No. 222 for the payment of small repairs &c, in defraying ordinary wages for gardenwork during this and the following quarter of the year, the pressure of ground-work in this establishment during the season rendering it preferable to postpone some smaller mechanics works, for which the above sum was intended, til a later period.
I beg also to solicit, that the unexpended balance, left from the labor vote under authority C.S. No. 22 &1431 amounting to £64. 1. - may be added to the additional labourvote, solicited for on this occasion.
I have the honor to be,
Sir,
your most obedient servant
Ferd. Mueller.
The honorable the Chief Secretary.2
Please cite as “FVM-60-08-31,” 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