27th April 1865
I have the honour to request that you will be so good as to wait upon the Chief Secretary at this Office on Friday next at half past twelve oClock to meet Mr Hodgkinson Assistant Commissioner of Crown Lands and Survey on the subject of his proposition in connexion with his design for planting and improving the Parliamentary Buildings Reserve to have certain Araucaria trees removed from the Botanical Gardens to the said Reserve1
Sd J Moore
The Director
Botanical Gardens
Araucaria
Hodgkinson was superintending the planting of the reserve to replace 'the dreary waste which has been allowed to exist for so long a period' (Geelong advertiser, 14 June 1865, p. 2). Herald (Melbourne), 27 April 1865, p. 2. col. c) has a description of Hodgkinson's design.
Please cite as “FVM-65-04-27,” 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