Office of Lands and Survey,
Melbourne, 2nd January, 1866.
Sir,
I am in receipt of your memorandum of the 2nd ultimo,1 in which you kindly intimate your willingness to supply, at the proper season, for the reserves under the control of the Board of Land and Works 600 plants of Pinus Pinaster, 500 Californian and Himalayan Pines, and a few hundred Western Australian mahogany trees.2
In thanking you for the offer I beg to state that, I shall be glad to receive the plants you have specified, in the month of May next.
With respect to the Western Australian mahogany trees, I shall be able to make provision for as many as can be spared.
Perhaps therefore, of these you could supply four hundred (400)
I have the honor to be,
Sir,
Your most obedient Servant,
C Hodgkinson
Assistant Commissioner of Lands & Survey.
Dr Mueller,
Government Botanist,
&c. &c. &c.
Pinus Pinaster
Please cite as “FVM-66-01-02,” 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