Melbourne botanic & zoologic Garden
25 March 61.
Sir
I have the honor to solicit, that you will be pleased to sanction the insertion of the following advertisement during the month of April in the Government Gazette.
I have the honor to be,
Sir,
your most obedient and humble servant
Ferd. Mueller.
The honorable the Chief Secretary1
Botanic Garden,
Melbourne, 25th March, 1861.
PLANTS, ETC., FOR DISTRIBUTION.
PLANTS, Cuttings, and Seeds can be supplied from the Botanic Garden to public institutions of the colony during the month of May, 1861.
FERD. MUELLER,
Government Botanist.
The request was approved. The MS for the advertisement, surely sent as an enclosure, has not been found; the text given below is from Victoria. Government gazette, no. 52, 3 April 1861 (B61.04.14). The Argus drew the public's attention to the notice on 10 April 1861, p. 5, col. a.
Please cite as “FVM-61-03-25,” 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