[Reqn for Chevaux de Fris lacquering guns1 &c Botanic Gardens]
See Billett (1997). Two Russian guns captured from the Redan fortification in the Crimea were forwarded by the Imperial Government to the Victorian Government, which placed them in the Melbourne Botanic Garden. There is a photograph of the guns behind a Cheval de frise in Almond (1987), plate 7, and an earlier engraving in the State Librray of Victoria collection is available at https://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/258987 (accessed 4 September 2026).
Letter not found; item is a register entry only, of a requisition dated 11 June 1864.
Please cite as “FVM-64-06-11a,” 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