Botanic Garden
Melbourne, 14th Septbr. 1872
Sir
I have the honor to solicit that you will be pleased to grant a transfer of the sum of £1.14/ (one pound fourteen shillings Sterlg) from the vote for Forage (1871/2), now still under authority No 625, to the votes for Incidental Expenses, in order to enable me to meet a claim for gas, consumed in the laboratory of the Botanic Garden during the last financial year.1
I have the honor to be
Sir
your obedient servant
Ferd. von Mueller,
Direct. botanic Garden.
The Honorable the Chief Secretary
An annotation on the letter indicates that the transfer was approved.
Please cite as “FVM-72-09-14,” 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