Town Clerk's Office
Town Hall, Melbourne
27th February 1867
Sir
Referring to the inroads of cattle into the northern Botanical Gardens reserve from the Yarra Park in which it is contained and to the fencing placed to prevent such inroads,1 I am by direction of the Health Committee of the Council of the City of Melbourne to point out that the fencing near the foot of the Botanical Gardens Bridge where such fencing extends into the river could with very slight trouble and expense be secured and fixed so that cattle would not wade or swim round it and I am to suggest that that expedient may be adopted.2
I have the honor to be
Sir
Your most obedient servant
E. G. FitzGibbon
Town Clerk
Dr F. Mueller F.R.S.
Please cite as “FVM-67-02-27a,” 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