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From Ferdinand von Mueller to Charles Gavan Duffy   11 Sep 1871

Melbourne bot. Garden

11/9/71

Sir

I have the honor to solicit, that you will be pleased to sanction the transmission of £100 (one hundred pounds Sterling) out of the vote for publication of plants to the Agent General, for the purpose of being paid to Mr Geo. Bentham, the President of the Linnean Society, as the monetary contribution of the Victorian Government towards the 6th vol. of the Flora Australiensis1 for which subsidy thirty copies of the volume (now under progress) will be received.2

I have the honor to be

your obedient servant

Ferd. von Mueller,

Gov. Botanist and

Director of bot. Garden

The honorable the Chief Secretary

1

Bentham (1863-78).

2

The request was repeated in M to C. Duffy, 3 October 1871 (in this edition as 71-10-03b).

Please cite as “FVM-71-09-11,” 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 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/71-09-11