25th June 1869
My dear Dr Von Mueller,
I have the pleasure to inform you that at the meeting of the Council of the City of Melbourne on Monday last a report from the Health Committee "informing the Council in respect to boulder stones lying in Yarra Park and which the Council on the Committees recommendation has ordered to be sold — that the stones were excavated by labor employed by the Director of the Botanical Gardens in the expectation of being allowed to use them;1 and recommending that as the intention is to use them in the public grounds the instruction for the sale be rescinded and the Director of the Botanical Gardens be allowed to remove them for such use at any time within three months from this time" was adopted.2
I remain my dear Dr von Mueller
Very faithfully yours
E. G. FitzGibbon
Town Clerk
Please cite as “FVM-69-06-25,” 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