Melbourne, Botan. Garden,
23/3/67
Sir
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of the documents kindly sent by you, and referring to the Cinchona-plantations of India. They will be to me a further guidance in my operations to locate the Cinchona, tea &c in some of our ferntree gullies, for which purpose many thousand plants have been reared without any direct expense to this Government. I beg to return the receipt-form.
I have the honor to be,
Sir,
your very obedient serv.
Ferd. Mueller.
The honorable the Chief Secretary
REVENUE DEPARTMENT.
Government Office,
Fort Saint George.
2 Copies each of the Extracts from the Reports on the Govt. Chinchona1 Plantations and Botanical Gardens for 1863-64 & 1864-65
forwarded by order of Government this 8 day of Febr 1867, per Dâk Banghy, franked to the Honorable the Colonial Secretary Victoria. —
Received from the Under Secretary to Government, Revenue Department, 2 copies of Extracts from Reports re Chincona Plantations this 18 day of March 1867
(Signed) Name
Station
Date
Early return to this Office of this Voucher duly signed is requested.
Cinchona
Name mis-spelled here and in unsigned receipt below.
Please cite as “FVM-67-03-23a,” 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