November 2nd [186]41
Sir
I am directed by the Council of the Acclimatisation Society to request that you will call a meeting of the Trustees of the Royal Park for the purpose of bringing under notice the advisability of adding to the regulations recently […]2 rules for adding the kindling of fires or discharge of fireworks within the Royal Park.3
I have the honor to be
Sir
Your most Obedt Servant
Geo Sprigg
Secy
To Dr Mueller F.R.S.
Hony Secretary to the Trustees of Royal Park
&c &c &c
editorial addition.
three illegible words.
G. Sprigg to M, 26 October 1864 (in this edition as 64-10-26c) includes the desirability of these additions. The clause requested was not implemented until 'Regulations for the protection and management of the Royal Park' were published in Victoria Government Gazette, no. 19, 13 February 1866, p. 381: '6. Persons shall not be permitted to bring dogs into the park, nor shall any person discharge firearms or kindle any fire in the park'.
Please cite as “FVM-64-11-02a,” 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