Town Clerks Office,
Town Hall,
Melbourne June 21st 1864
Dear Sir
I regret that from the press of business I have been unable sooner to address you officially in reference to your letter to Dr Eades of the 20th ultimo offering to plant a row of trees between the footbridge of the Botanical Gardens, and the Railway, if the Corporation would furnish some £30 to defray the costs of labor.1
I have now the honor to inform you that the Health Committee, having reported upon the subject to the City Council, that body has directed me to thank you in its name and to state that it has accepted your proposal and appropriated a sum of £30 for the purpose.2
I have the honor to be,
Dear Sir,
Yours faithfully,
E. G. FitzGibbon
Town Clerk
Dr F. Mueller
Director of the Botanical Gardens
&c &c &c
M's letter to Eades was read at a meeting of the Melbourne City Council's Health Committee on 25 May 1864: 'Chairman instructed to Report to council recommending that the offer of Dr Mueller be accepted with thanks and that a sum of £30 be appropriated to defray the cost of planting' (Unit 1, VPRS 4039, Public Record Office, Victoria).
See also M to E. FitzGibbon, 21 June 1864 (in this edition as 64-06-21b).
Please cite as “FVM-64-06-21a,” 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