August 12 [186]21
Sir.
I am directed by the Council of the Acclimatisation Society to request that you will be good enough to bring before the Trustees of the Royal Park the necessity of at once applying to the Honble the Commissioner of Lands & Survey for the Deed of Conveyance for the Park, as mentioned in the "Gazette" of April 23rd 1862.2
I have the honor to be
Sir
your most Obedt Servant
Geo Sprigg
Secretary
To Ferdinand Mueller Esq M.D. Ph.D. FR.S.
Government Botanist
Director of the Botanic Gardens
&c. &c. &c.
editorial addition.
'Lands to be permanently Reserved, etc', Victoria government gazette, 23 April 1862, p. 687, first published in the issue of 25 March, p. 529. M, as secretary to the Royal Park trustees, requested the Crown Grant on 16 August 1862 (letter not found), to which C. Hodgkinson to M, 30 August 1862 is a reply setting out necessary preliminary steps. Theodotus John Sumner, William Lyall, John Pinney Bear, Thomas Black, and three Government officers — William Wilkinson Wardell, Inspector-General of Public Works, Ferdinand Mueller, Government Botanist and Clement Hodgkinson, Assistant Commissioner of Lands and Survey — were appointed Trustees of the site on10 March 1862, and announced in Victoria government gazette, 25 March 1862, p. 529.
Please cite as “FVM-62-08-12,” 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