To James Casey   10 March 1873

Melbourne bot. Garden,

10/3/73.

Sir

I have the honor to submit the byefollowing application from Sir Geo. Verdon, K.C.M.G.,1 for a collection of Australian seeds, to be supplied to the Captain of the "Pisani".2 Should it meet with your approval that such are supplied, then I will not fail to provide in your name as good a collection as the reduced circumstances here now permit, altho it cannot be extensive, as this season no longer a man could be exclusively employed in the seeds Department, and as the present means of my establishment allow no longer of a collector being kept in the field as in former years, to provide means for interchanges &c

I have the honor to be, Sir,

your obedient servant

Ferd. von Mueller,

Direct. botan. Garden

 

The honorable the Minister of the Lands Department3

1
G. Verdon to M, 4 March 1873.
2
Count Giuseppe Lovera di Maria, commander of the Italian navy corvette Vettor Pisani, which had been visiting Sydney.
3
On 12 March 1873 the Secretary of Agriculture, A. Wallis, minuted: 'I presume there can be no objection to these seeds being supplied'. Casey initialled his approval the next day.

Please cite as “FVM-73-03-10,” 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 25 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/73-03-10