Melbourne bot. Garden
20/5/651
Sir
In reply to your letter of the 15th instant2 I have the honor to inform you, that I immediately after the receipt of a remittance of the Madras Government communicated with the honorable the Chief Secretary, to learn whether the money voted by the Victorian Government should be refunded or the remittance be applied to obtaining new supplies of the tree-seeds. On learning from my honorable Chief, that the fund should be returned I have acted accordingly.
I have the honor to be,
Sir
your obedient servant
Ferd. Mueller
E Symonds Esq &c &c &c
Letter marked: 'Has the remittce been returned to the Govt of Madras? 31.5.65 E.S.S.'.
Letter not found, but a draft of it is on the file: 'Dr Mueller Have you rec'd a remittance from the Madras Govt to repay this expense? 15.5.65 E.S.S.'. Other minutes on the file are an illegible comment and 'Ask Dr Mueller whether the […] is to understand that the money has been sent back E.S.S. 27/5'. For M's reply to the latter, see M to E. Symonds, 1 June 1865.
Please cite as “FVM-65-05-20b,” 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