Melbourne,
bot Garden Museum
4/8/73.
Sir
I have the honor to solicit, that you will be pleased to place under authority of expenditure such portion of the votes sanctioned for my Department, as you may deem desirable, in order that I may from month to month pass the accounts for salaries of myself, my assistant and museum & office attendent, also the amounts incurred for incidental expenses, stores or other official liabilities.1
I have the honor to be,
Sir, your obedient servant
Ferd. von Mueller.
The honorable the Chief Secretary.
The authorities were provided in W. Odgers to M, 5 August 1873 (in this edition as 73-08-05a).
Please cite as “FVM-73-08-04,” 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