To James McCulloch   17 February 1871

Melbourne botan. Garden

17/2/71

Sir

I have the honor to inform you, that this day intimation has been given to me by the Water Department, that no Yan Yean water even at night hours will in future be supplied to the botanic Garden. Under these circumstances I have the honor of urging the necessity of obtaining as early as ever possible a spacious tank perhaps best of brick and cement for the copious storage of Yarra Water, pumped up by steam power, the small tank built two years ago being utterly1

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An unknown amount of text missing. On 23 February 1871 the Under Secretary, William Odgers, referred M’s letter ‘for the opinion of the Board'. Filed with the MS is a requisition for the tank, ‘for the storage of Yarra water, forced to the summit of the Garden by stem-power’, in M's hand, dated 19 February 1871.

Please cite as “FVM-71-02-17a,” 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 26 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/71-02-17a