July 9th [186]21
Sir
In reply to your letter of yesterday2 I have the honor to inform you that at present no law is in existence which will enable you to summons the parent of any boy as mentioned by you except they have destroyed birds not indigenous to the colony. No decision was come to by the Council relative to the birds for Hamburg but the matter shall be again brought before them next week.3
I am directed by the Council to respectfully request that you will kindly take such steps as shall lead to their obtaining the earliest possible possession of the house at Royal Park now occupied by Mr Scott.
I have the honor to be
Sir
Your most Obedt Servant
Geo Sprigg
Secretary
To Ferdinand Mueller Esqr M.D. FR.S.
Director of the Botanic Gardens,
Government Botanist
&c. &c. &c.
editorial addition.
Letter not found.
At a Council meeting of 2 July 1862, a letter from Mr Scholstein of the Zoological Society of Hamburg was referred to M. The letter asked for specimens of native animals (Unit 1, p. 208, VPRS 2223, Public Record Office, Victoria). G. Sprigg to M, 23 July 1862, comments on birds for Hamburg.
Please cite as “FVM-62-07-09,” 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