Office of Lands and Survey,
Melbourne, 19th January, 1866.
Sir,
Referring to your letter of the 8th November, last,1 I have the honor to inform you that the Honorable The Commissioner of Crown Lands and Survey considers it inexpedient to reserve, for the purposes of an experimental garden, the land therein specified viz allotment 54, Parish of Kerrie.2
I have the honor to be,
Sir,
Your most obedient Servant,
C. Hodgkinson
Assist Commissioner of Lands & Survey
The Government Botanist
&c. &c. &c.
Letter not found.
See also C. Hodgkinson to M, 28 February 1866 (in this edition as 66-02-28b). When the plan of the Parish of Kerrie, east of Mt Macedon, was published in 1892, allotment 54 had been subdivided; the largest, 54E of 124 acres, was shown as a 'Plantation Reserve' (National Library of Australia digitized copy, http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-232024455).
Please cite as “FVM-66-01-19a,” 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