Melbourne botanic Garden
8/6/64
Sir
I have the honor to solicit, that you will be pleased to sanction the printing of a small pamphlet (of not many sheets) at the Governments Printing Office on the plants of the Chatham Islands.1 The material for this essay has been presented to the botanic Museum of Melbourne by L. Travers Esq of Christchurch, New Zealand, by whom at a considerable expense it was accumulated. As the Chatham Islands are a British possession and a dependency of New Zealand and as any light thrown on their hitherto almost unknown native productions cannot fail to be guiding to results advantageous to British people, and as moreover such elucidation will be creditable to Victorian science, I humbly beg that you will take my request into favorable consideration.
I have the honor to be,
Sir,
your most obedient servant
Ferd. Mueller
Gov. Botanist
The honorable the Chief Secretary
&c &c &c2
B64.10.02.
On 9 June 1864 McCulloch minuted: 'The Government Printing Office is fully employed, and I am quite sure that Mr Ferris [i.e. Ferres] could not at present undertake the work. Besides there is no vote under the control of the Government, unless it be in Dr Muellers department from which the expenditure could be taken— if Dr Ms vote will meet the outlay necessary I have no objection.'
Transfer to the Printing Office from M's publishing budget was requested in M to J. McCulloch, 21 June 1864 (in this edition as 64-06-21c).
Please cite as “FVM-64-06-08,” 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