List of the employese1 in the Melbourne Botanical Gardens Department that have been discharged and those that are retained with there respective length of service.
| Discharged |
Retained |
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| William Smith 12 | 13 years | 8/ |
John Waters3 |
17 years | 8/ |
| Henry Peterson4 2 | 12 | 9/ |
Thomas Morrison |
14 | 8/ |
| Robert Morrison 5 | 12 | 8/ |
Hugh Hendrick |
13 | 8/ |
| William Lumsden 6 | 12 | 8/ |
Emanuel Soues |
13 | 8/ |
| David O'Leary 3 | 11 | 7/ |
Ambrose Neat5 |
13 | |
| Robert Kimpton | 8 | 8/ |
David Coller |
13 | 8/ |
| Thomas Goliver6 Jun 4 | 7 | 6/ |
James Sulivan |
13 | 8/ |
| David Manzies | 5 | 7/ |
Guthrige Scheider7 |
10 | 7/ |
| Joseph Davies | 4 |
Thomas Golliver8 |
10 | 7/ | |
| William Chisholm | 4 |
Charles Schlepalus9 6 |
8 | 8/ | |
| Thomas Bates | 3 |
John Hinze |
6 | 8/ | |
| Thomas Rutherford | 2 |
Henry Moran 1 |
5½ | 5/ | |
| Edward Bourk10 | 2 |
Charles French11 |
5 | 7/ | |
| George Robertson | 1½ |
Samuel Coteral12 2 |
4 | 6/ | |
| Gilbert Smith | ¼ |
Mr Hoffman 5 |
4 | 11/ | |
| Mr Smith | ¼ |
Thomas Meehan 3 |
3 | 4/ | |
|
Mr Luhmann 413 |
1½ | 8/ | |||
|
Boy in the Office |
1½ |
| 1 7 yrs since last engagement ?reasons |
1 Advanced to higher position |
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| 2 Carpenter not required at present |
2 Mechanic |
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| 3 Carter (his place to be taken by junior) one cart only required |
3 Advanced to higher position |
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| 4 Laborer |
4 Engine driver not reqd |
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| 14 | 5 Understood he was about to leave | 5 Chemical operator (evening duties) |
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| 6 purposes to tack his duties on to another man who is 5 yrs his senior | 6 Professl. knowledge Seeds. | ||
sic. Not all of the staff named have been identified. Those for whom details have been found have entries in the Biographical Register.
The numbers against some names refer to notes at the bottom of the relevant columns.
i.e. Watters.
i.e. Petersen; see M to W. Odgers, 3 October 1870.
i.e. Neate.
i.e. Gulliver.
i.e. Schneider.
i.e. Gulliver.
i.e. Schlipalius.
i.e. Bourke.
Charles French Snr.
i.e. Cottrell.
i.e. Luehmann. The footnote reference number '4' has been misplaced; it refers to George Robertson the engine driver, who was discharged (see G. Robertson to M, 10 May 1870 (in this edition as 70-05-10a)).
Rows for notes 5 and 6 bracketed at right of column.
The following text is linked to the bracketed notes by a line at the side of the page.
Chief Secretary.
MS written by a clerk, with the annotations in a different hand. The file includes another sheet with a less complete list of names, and without the salaries and annotations. List originally registered as V70/4978 on 11 May 1870; the register entry indicates that the item was sent in on 7 May; it also has a note dated 11 May, 'C. S. [Chief Secretary] approves of discharge of carpenter & carter', and another indicating that the file was returned to M the same day.
Please cite as “FVM-70-05-07b,” 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