To Dr Mueller Director of the Botanic and Zoological Gardens
Sir
It having been proposed at the Meeting of the V. G. M. I. Soc.1 held on the 29th ult that the members Mr Jno Walters2 of the Botanic Gardens and Mr Wm Smith of the zoological gardens should act as judges at the Horticultural Exhibition to be held on the 22d and 23d inst. I am directed by the Committee to request that you may be good enough to sanction the absence of Messrs Smith and Walters from their respective duties for the purpose stated3
I have the honor to be, Sir
your obt Servt
T. McMillan
Hon Sec.
Victorian Gardeners' Mutual Improvement Society.
i.e. Watters.
M agreed to the request in M to T. McMillan, 13 November 1860.
MS written into minutes of meeting of the Victorian Gardeners' Mutual Improvement Society held on 29 October 1860. The letter was evidently written, however, in early November, the exhibition being held later that month.
Please cite as “FVM-60-11-00c,” 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