Botanic Garden
Melbourne, 19th April 1873
Sir
In accordance with your kind promise already orally given, I have the honor to solicit, that you will be pleased to sanction the transfer of the sum of £110.- .- from the vote for 'Purchase of Plants and Publication of Works' to the vote for 'Stores, Forage etc.1 also the transfer of the sum of £120.- voted for a 'Test plantation in the Ranges' and of £74.10/—, surplus of vote for 'Reward to orphanboys employed in the Garden,' making in the aggregate £194.10/— to the vote for 'Wages', in order to enable me to meet the necessary expenditure during the current financial year. The vote for Transit and Incidental Expenses will also be insufficient, especially in consequence of the unexpected charge for packing of Ferntrees for Holland;2 I have therefore the honor to solicit that you will also grant a transfer of the sum of £30.- .- to this vote from the vote for 'Purchase of Plants & Publication of Works.'
I have the honor to be
Sir
Your very obedient servant
Ferd. von Mueller,
Director Botanic Garden
The Honorable the Commissioner of Lands & Survey3
There is no closing quotation mark.
See M to J. Casey. 27 February 1873 (in this edition as 73-02-27a), and subsequernt correspondence.
Casey approved M's requests on 24 April 1873. The transfers were completed and M was duly informed on 19 May. On 21 May, M 'Returned with best thanks to Mr Agg' the relevant file.
MS written by Georg Luehmann and signed by M.
Please cite as “FVM-73-04-19a,” 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