Melbourne, botanic & zoologic Garden,
19. Aug 1861
Sir
In submitting to your favorable consideration a schedule of estimate of expenditure for the botanic Garden during the year 1862, I have the honor to point out, that the estimate of the zoological Gardens expenses will be early under the consideration of the Committee of the acclimatisation Society, but that the absence of Edward Wilson Esq., who is at present in New South Wales, is likely to cause a delay of a few days in the preparation of the estimate for the zoological Department.
I have the honor to be,
Sir,
your most obedient and humble servant
Ferd. Mueller.
The honorable the Chief Secretary
&c &c &c
Estimate of Expenditure in the Melbourne botanic Garden during the year 18621
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£ |
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£ |
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d |
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| Salary to the Gov. Botanist and Director of the botanic Garden |
600 |
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| " to the Assistant |
300 |
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| " to the Curator |
300 |
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1200 |
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| Wages to Gardeners, Labourers, Artisans, Carters, botanical Collectors, Messenger &c |
4000 |
— | — | The wages-fund cannot well be diminished, if out of it all the smaller repairs in the establishment have to be defrayed as formerly and if it is desired, that public institutions should be supplied as extensively as before from this garden with plants and seeds. In the northern ground moreover will after the removal of part of the animals still considerable labour be required, for keeping the ground in order and for continueing improvements, such as the formation of walks, drains, avenues; similar new arrangements are also yet necessary in the southern ground. | |||
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Contingencies |
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| Purchase of plants and seeds |
150 |
— | — | This sum is intended for the purchase of seeds for lawns; also for the acquirement of plants and seeds from collectors or nurseries at home and abroad, whenever such are not obtainable by interchange. | |||
| Expenses for publishing works on Australian plants |
320 |
— | — | This sum would furnish illustrations in continuance of the publication of Dr Muellers work on Victorian plants, but it is also submitted to the consideration of the Government that a contribution of £100 might be made out of this vote to Mr G. Bentham, F.L.S., London, for whose universal flora of Australia, probably to be brought out under Dr Muellers aid, subsidies have been solicited by Sir Will. Hooker of Kew from all the Australian Governments. | |||
| Stores, timber, tools, herbarium-material, fencing materials, flower pots, labels &c &c |
420 |
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| Forage for two draft horses and such quadrupedes, singing birds, water birds, fishes and other animals, as may be retained at the botanic Garden |
220 |
— | — | It would not be possible to reduce this sum still further, since many of the animals and structures for their keeping cannot readily be removed and as it would also be a source of regreat2 especially to the residents in the vicinity of the garden, if the garden were entirely deprived of such animals, as are with little expense and care easily kept. | |||
| Transit expenses for plants, seeds &c and incidental expenses |
120 |
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| Travelling expenses |
40 |
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| Towards the enlargement of the collections in the botanical museum3 |
£ |
1600 |
— | — | By a judicious purchase of prepared extra-Australian plants, for the acquisition of which this sum is solicited, our botanical museum would be rendered one of the most important of the globe and would furnish material for independent labours in any branch of descriptive Botany for which our botanical Office has already since several years past (as far as means permitted) been of service not only to this but also to the surrounding colonies. | ||
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£ |
8070 |
Ferd. Mueller
19/8/61
Please cite as “FVM-61-08-19a,” 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