Chief Secretary’s Office
Melbourne 29th June 1875
Sir,
I have the honor to request that you will be so good as to furnish a report, with as little delay as possible, for the Commissioners of the Royal Commission on Volunteer Forces, as to the suitableness of indigenous trees for making charcoal.1
I have the honor to be
Sir
Your obedient servant
W. H. Odgers
The Government Botanist
Melbourne
See M to R. Ramsay, 2 July 1875. For an extract of M's report see B75.07.07.
Please cite as “FVM-75-06-29,” 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