Melbourne bot. & zool. Garden,
18. July 1861
Sir
I have the honor to solicit, that you will be pleased to permit the insertion of the byefollowing notice into the Governments Gazette.
I have the honor to be,
Sir,
your obedient servant
Ferd. Mueller.
The honorable the Chief Secretary
& & &1
SEA ISLAND COTTON SEEDS FOR DISTRIBUTION.
SEEDS of the Sea Island Cotton may be obtained on personal application at the Botanical Garden.
FERD. MUELLER, M.D.,
Government Botanist.
Melbourne Botanic and Zoological Garden,
17th July, 1861.
The request is annotated: 'sent to printer'. The MS for the advertisement, surely sent as an enclosure despite being dated one day earlier, has not been found; the text given below is from Victoria. Government gazette, no. 110, 19 July 1861 (B61.07.01).
Please cite as “FVM-61-07-18a,” 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