To James McCulloch1    29 April 1865

Melbourne botan Garden

29/4/65.

Sir

I have the honor to inform you, that by last mail the Deputy Accountant and Auditor General of the Madras Government has forwarded to me the sum of fifty pounds Sterling (£50. -. -) for the purchase of seeds of Victorian timber trees. The Government of Victoria having disbursed already thirty pounds Sterling for this purpose before, I have the honor to enquire, whether I shall expend the whole sum transmitted to me, or whether I shall out of it refund the £30. -. - previously expended by the treasury.

I have the honor to be

Sir,

your most obedient servant

Ferd. Mueller.

 

The honorable the Chief Secretary.2

1
See also M to C. Darling, 18 August 1864, and notes thereto.
2
There is a note on the file: 'See vote 28 at Estimates page 78 purchase of seeds to be [provided] to the Govt of Madras'. On 3 May 1865 the Under Secretary, J. Moore, minuted: 'Ask Dr Mueller to call on Chief Secretary’. On 8 May Moore added: 'The Chief Secretary is of opinion that the £30 already expended on seeds should be repaid to the Treasury out of the remittance of £50 received by Dr Mueller'. M replied on 19 May: 'The sum of thirty pounds has been paid accordingly into the treasury.'

Please cite as “FVM-65-04-29a,” 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 10 May 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/65-04-29a