Melbourne botan Garden
5/4/69.
Sir
I have the honor to solicit, that you will be pleased to sanction the expenditure of one hundred and twenty pounds Sterling (£120) to secure that portion of the great Sonderian collections of Museum plants, which most particularly now is needed for the study of those Australian plants, which are to be elucidated in my next volumes. This sum would be available out of the vote for purchase of plants and bona fide property would be obtained for it. The former course for similar payments has been to transmit the amount to the Agent General in London, through whom the sending from Hamburg via London could be effected.
I have the honor to be,
Sir, your obedient servant
Ferd von Mueller.
The honorable Jam. Macph. Grant, M.P.
Minister for Crown Lands & Survey
&c &c &c1
Grant minuted his approval M's request on 12 April 1869. See also M to J. Grant, 31 August 1869.
Please cite as “FVM-69-04-05,” 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