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From Ferdinand von Mueller to Edmund FitzGibbon   23 June 1868

Bot. Gard. 23/6/68

Dear Sir

I regret that I should have to trouble you again, with such trifles as chimneys for the lamps, but it appears that the rain enters through some of the holes on top of the lamps, a fact which only recently has been ascertained, and falling then on the heated chimney the latter is sure to crack. We shall try whether stopping up these holes will answer.1

I remain

Dear Sir

your obedient

Ferd. v Mueller.

E. G. Fitzgibbon Esq

1

Two kerosene-operated street lamps for the Botanic Garden footbridge across the Yarra river had been supplied by the City Council but operated by M's staff; see E. FitzGibbon to M, 22 May 1868 (in this edition as 68-05-22b).

2

MS written by Ernst Heyne and signed by M.

Please cite as “FVM-68-06-23,” 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 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/68-06-23