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From Ferdinand von Mueller to George Verdon   30 May 1865

Melbourne bot. Garden,

30/5/65

Sir

I have the honor to solicit, that you will be pleased to cause the sum of one hundred pounds Sterling to be transmitted to the Agent General at London out of the vote for publishing works on Australian plants, and that you will kindly render there this sum available to Mr Geo Bentham, the President of the Linnean Society as a contribution towards the expenditure to be incurred by the publication of the 3. vol. of the Australian Flora,1 now under preparation for the press.

I have the honor to be

Sir,

your most obedient servant

Ferd. Mueller

The honorable the treasurer.

1

Bentham (1863-78).

2

Letter annotated: 'Crown Agents £100 transmitted 24.6.65 3561 EJT'; 'Informed 4.7.65 3549 EJT'; '£100 […] 1/101 St 1105'; 'Passed to Melbourne 8/6/65 JCW 12/6/65'; and 'inf 20/6'.

Please cite as “FVM-65-05-30a,” 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/65-05-30a