[The Chairman, Councillor Mason and the Town Clerk were requested to draw up a list of trees shrubs &c and forward application for same to Dr Mueller, Edmund Glason Esq having kindly consented to take charge of the same and forward by Steamer.]1
At the Council meeting of 16 July 1862, Councillor G. Haynes 'mentioned that as he had to proceed to Melbourne in a few days he would be glad to wait upon Dr Mueller and take charge of Trees & Plants for the Botanical Gardens' (Minute book 2; Banner of Belfast, 22 July 1862, p. 3). Haynes duly reported at the Council meeting of 13 August 'that in accordance with his promise he had called on Dr Mueller in Melbourne who had expressed regret at not receiving the letter addressed to him by the Council in May last, but that he would forward a box of young trees seeds &c, and had accordingly done so, and the plants and seeds were now in the hands of the Curator of the Gardens [J. Prior]. The Council agreed to allow Prior assistance to have the same properly set out and planted' (Minute book 2).
Letter not found. The text given here is from the minutes of the meeting of the Belfast Municipal Council held on 7 May 1862. It is assumed that M would have been written to soon after the meeting.
Please cite as “FVM-62-05-00b,” 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