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From Edmund FitzGibbon to Ferdinand von Mueller   12 Oct 1864

Town Clerk's Office

Town Hall

Melbourne Oct 12th 1864

My dear Dr Mueller,

The Health Committee of the City Council will on Monday recommend to the Council that a contract to be entered into for the removal of the fence in Yarra Park from where you desire to erect fencing and to reerect it where it will be [servicable] in securing the outer boundaries of the Park. The report when adopted will be acted upon as quickly as possible.1

With respect to Mr Hodgkinson's letter2 and the tracing which you were so good as to enclose to me, and which I return enclosed with thanks3 it appears to me that a [mistaken] [impression] has been conveyed to his mind to the effect that the City Council has been contending with you in respect to the boundaries of the Botanical reserve,4 which is not the case, what has been asked on behalf of the Council is that so long as the reserve be left without that security to the public which is given in respect to the residue of the park, its limits whatever they are should not be exceeded in the erection of the enclosing fences.

I am

Dr Sir

Yours faithfully

(signed) E. G. FitzGibbon

Town Clerk

Dr F. Mueller

Botanical Gardens

1

For background to the fencing, see E. FitzGibbon, 30 September 1864, and notes thereto.

2

C. Hodgkinson to M, 10 October 1864 (in this edition as 64-10-10a).

3

Tracing not found.

4

See M to E. FitzGibbon, 10 October 1864 (in this edition as 64-10-10c).

Please cite as “FVM-64-10-12a,” 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 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/64-10-12a