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From Ferdinand von Mueller to James McCulloch   29 Apr 1865

Melbourne bot. Garden

29/4/65.

Sir

I have the honor to solicit, that you will be pleased to authorize the sum of one hundred pounds Sterling to be transmitted from the vote publication of works on Australian plants to G. Bentham Esq. President of the Linnean Society of London through the Agent General of the Victorian Government, this sum being the subsidy promised for each volume of the Flora Australiensis, of which the third is now under the press.1

I have the honor to be,

Sir,

your most obedient servant

Ferd. Mueller

The honorable the Chief Secretary2

1

Bentham (1863-78); vol. 3, dated 1866, was published in January 1867 (TL2).

2

Approval for M's request was minuted on the file.

Please cite as “FVM-65-04-29b,” 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/65-04-29b