Botanic Garden
Melbourne, 28/6/71
Sir
Allow me to ask whether you have any means of obliging me by ascertaining the approximate quantity of wood, sold for fuel in your township. It occurs to me that probably you have some wood-market where information may be obtained; also perhaps that tolls exist, where some sort of record is kept of the number of wood carts passing. I am anxious to learn the approximate quantity used in 1870, to append statistic notes on fuel supply to a public document which I am about to issue.1
With obedience
Your
Ferd. von Mueller
M.D.
In B71.13.11, pp. 24-5, M presented data from 'various official returns' on the current consumption of wood in various districts of Victoria including Sandhurst (i.e. Bendigo), for which he adds 'the approximate quantity used solely for fuel' provided by 'another informant', presumably Fletcher.
MS in another hand and signed by M.
Please cite as “FVM-71-06-28a,” 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