Melbourne bot. Garden,
26/9/65.
Sir
I have the honor to solicit, that you will be pleased to place at my disposal the following amounts for disbursement during the remainder of the year.
| Purchase of plants and seeds |
£10.- .- |
| Publication of works |
£30.- .- |
| Incidental expenses |
£20.- .- |
I further beg to solicit, that from the sum placed under authority for travelling expenses the amount of £20.- .- may be cancelled and along with £15 yet available out of the vote for travelling expenses be placed at my disposal for defraying incidental expenses. The transit expenses during the year have been so heavy as to leave not a sufficient amount to cover outstanding incidental accounts & to provide for the requirements of incidental work during the next three months, especially as an other second hand Garden cart has to be purchased and for that purpose the exhausted store vote is no longer available.1
I have the honor to be,
Sir,
your most obedient servant
Ferd. Mueller
The honorable the Chief Secretary
&c &c &c
Approval for M's requests was minuted to this letter. J. Moore to M, 11 October 1865, provided the authority numbers for expenditure under these heads in the Parliamentary vote for the year 1865; see under 'Departmental Contingencies. … subdivision 13, Botanic Gardens' (Victoria. Votes and proceedings of the Legislative Assembly, session 1864-5, vol. 1, p. 220).
Please cite as “FVM-65-09-26d,” 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