Botanic Museum
Melbourne, 1st Decbr. 1873
Sir,
I have the honor to solicit that you will be pleased to sanction the transmission of the sum of £100 (One hundred pounds), voted for the publication of works on Australian plants, and now under authority C/S 252, to the Agent General in London, to be paid to Mr. Geo. Bentham the President of the Linnean Society, as the monetary contribution of the Victorian Government towards the 7th volume of the Flora Australiensis, for which subsidy thirty copies of the volume, now under progress, will be received.
I have the honor to be
Sir
Your obedient servant
Ferd. von Mueller
The Honorable the Chief Secretary
Please cite as “FVM-73-12-01,” 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