Chief Secretary's Office.
Melbourne, 5th November 1870
Sir,
I am directed by the Chief Secretary to request that you will have the goodness to forward to the Industrial and Technological Museum at the Public Library the phytological collection recently exhibited at Sydney1 and which Sir James McCulloch is informed has now been returned to your custody.
I have the honor to be,
Sir,
Your most obedient Servant
(Sd) W. H. Odgers
The Director of the Botanic Gardens.
Agricultural Society of New South Wales Metropolitan Intercolonial Exhibition, Sydney, 1870. M to J. McCulloch, 13 July 1879 (in this edition as 70-07-13a), sought permission to send exhibits. There appears to have been some confusion when the cases were returned from Sydney, about which items belonged to the Public Library and Museum, which to the Government Botanist's Department, and which to M: see A. Neate to M, 4 November 1870 (in this edition as 70-11-04a), and M to R. Barry, 4 November 1970.
Please cite as “FVM-70-11-05,” 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