Office of Lands & Survey
Melbourne, 6th Sept 1864.
My dear Sir,
I forward herewith copies of draft regulations for the management of the Zoological Reserve which I have framed in accordance with the understanding arrived at some time since at a meeting of the Trustees of that Reserve.1
I was prevented by illness from sooner fulfilling my promise in this instance, and, as some delay has thus unavoidably occurred I shall be obliged if you will give the proposed rules your early consideration, and request you will be good enough, in your capacity of Honorary Secretary to the Trustees, to forward a copy to each Trustee for his perusal and opinion.2
I remain,
Dear Sir,
Faithfully yours
Clement Hodgkinson
F. Mueller Esq.
Government Botanist
&c. &c. &c.
Hodgkinson was a Government nominee as a Trustee; it appears that his referensce is to a meeting at which he was present, not to a letter from M as Honoray Secretary to the Trustees.
The Trustees met on 16 September 1864, and a copy of the regulations considered was forwarded with M to J. Grant, 16 September 1864; see notes thereto for the steps taken before final regulations were published in Victoria government gazette, 28 October 1864, p. 2408.
Please cite as “FVM-64-09-06,” 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