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From Ferdinand von Mueller to Frederick Standish   23 Jan 1865

Melbourne bot. Garden

23/1/65

Sir

In reply to your letter of the 20th,1 which reached me this day, I have the honor to inform you, that I shall feel great pleasure in admitting four of the police-horses into the northern reserve of the botanic Garden as long as a sufficiency of grass will be available for the purpose.2 It may be, that ere long the whole of that reserve will be transformed into an arboretum for the sake of embellishing the vicinity of the future governments house at an early time, when probably also the horses used for the service of this establishment will have to be removed.

I have the honor to be,

Sir,

your most obedient servant

Ferd. Mueller.

Capt Standish,

Chief Commissioner of police

1

Letter not found.

2

Annotated: 'Ackd 23/1/65'. On the same day, Standish minuted: 'Forwarded to Mr Bookey who will be able to arrange this matter with Dr Mueller'. On 27 January, the file was minuted: 'Noted & returned to the Chief Commissioner'.

Please cite as “FVM-65-01-23,” 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/65-01-23