Melbourne bot Garden,
21/8/721
Sir
I have the honor to submit for your kind consideration the desirability of the byefollowing notice being published in the Governments Gazette.
I have the honor to be,
Sir, your obedient servant
Ferd von Mueller,
Director of the bot Garden
The honorable J. J. Casey &c &c
Minister of Lands
Melbourne bot Garden
26/8/72
Indigo seeds
Residents in the warmer parts of the colony can be supplied on application at the office of the Undersigned with fresh seeds of the East and West Indian and African kinds of Indigo plants for test-culture.
Ferd von Mueller,
Director of the botanic Garden. 2
M may have mis-dated this letter: it was probably written on 26 August, like the enclosed notice. On 27 August, the Assistant Commissioner of Crown Lands and Survey, C. Hodgkinson, recommended that ‘this notice be inserted'. The Commissioner of Crown Lands and Survey, J. Casey, initialled the notice on 29 August. The notice, was published in Victoria government gazette, no. 63, 13 September 1872, p. 1693 (B72.09.07).
See also E. Agg to M, 16 September 1872 (in this edition as 72-09-16a).
Please cite as “FVM-72-08-26b,” 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