Melbourne bot. Garden
18/10/64.
Sir
I have the honor to inform you, that at a meeting of the trustees of the Royal Park held 14 inst the following resolution was passed:
"That the Board of Land & Works be informed, that such hurdles in the Royal Park as can be removed without injury or inconvenience may be forthwith removed, but that the trustees desire that all others used for the protection of the shrubberies or that cannot conveniently be dispensed with may be allowed to continue until arrangements can be made for substituting other fencing."
I have the honor to be, Sir,
your most obedient servant
Ferd. Mueller.
Clement Hodgkinson Esq
&c &c &c1
On 20 October 1864 Hodgkinson minuted: 'that the Trustees be informed that the Crown Lands Bailiff has reported that the only hurdles in the Park are those recently erected near the lodge, and it is therefore hoped that the trustees will make arrangements that will enable those hurdles to be obtained before the end of the current year. The Board makes over to the Trustees the portable iron lodges in the Park.' The recommendation was approved by the Board of Land and Works on 31 October 1864.
See also A. Morrah to M, 2 November 1864.
For a copy of the above letter see A345 Royal Park Trustees letter and minute book, p. 15, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney.
Please cite as “FVM-64-10-18a,” 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