Botanic Garden
Melbourne, 12/5/73
Sir
I have the honor to submit herewith for your favorable consideration a requisition for the erection of a potting shed in one of the nurseries of the Botanic Garden.
In regard to the Garden Seats I would respectfully suggest that the whole sum granted for this purpose, viz. £100.- .-, be expended to purchase seats from the Penal Department, which supplies them at the rate of 23 shillings each.
The site for the Urinal and two Earth Closets to be erected in the Garden I shall point out to intending tenderers.
I have the honor to be
Sir
Your obedient servant
Ferd. von Mueller,
Director Botan. Garden
The Honorable the Commissioner of Public Works1
M's letter was forwarded to the Commissioner of Crown Lands and Survey on 12 May 1873 'to whom [it] should have been addressed'. Casey ordered on 16 May: 'Instruct Govt Botanist that he must not Communicate with other depts except th[rou]gh the Ministerial head of his own dept. All requisitions must be forwarded in the first instance to me.' M's requisition was approved and returned to him on 19 May. In M to J. Casey, 22 May 1873, M explained that the expenditure was part of previously approved expenditure.
MS written by Georg Luehmann and signed by M.
Please cite as “FVM-73-05-12b,” 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