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From Ferdinand von Mueller to the James Grant   11 Mar 1869

Melbourne Bot. Garden

11/3/69

Sir

I have the honor to inform you that great difficulty has arisen at the Royal Park for maintaining order and obedience to the regulations in consequence of no official appointment of a bailiff having as yet been made since the resignation of Mr Sprigg. The trustees of the Royal Park on the 27th Oct. 18681 submitted for your favorable consideration that the present superintendent of the park Mr Eugene Lissignol might as a honorary officer be entrusted also by the Board of Land and Works with the power of acting as Crownland Ranger like his predecessor. Great damage has since arisen there in consequence of mutilation of fences, invasion of cattle and even by open and insulting disregard to the Rules of the Board of Land and Works, so much so that the present custodian of the ground is all but powerless in any attempted exercise of his function.2

I have the honor to be

Sir

Your very obedient

(Signed) Ferd von Mueller

The honorable the President of the Board of Land and Works.

1

M to J. Grant, 27 October 1868 (in this edition as 68-10-27a).

2

Lissignol was appointed Bailiff on 15 March 1869 (Victoria Government gazette, 19 March 1869, p. 465).

Please cite as “FVM-69-03-11,” 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/69-03-11