(Circular)
Chief Secretary’s Office
Melbourne 20th December 1875
Sir,
I have the honor by direction of the Chief Secretary to request that you will be so good as to forward to this Office if possible not later than the 7th prox. a schedule of the classified officers in your department with a view to its being incorporated in the General List and published in the Government Gazette in terms of the Civil Service Act.1
I have the honor to be
Sir
Your most obedient servant
W. H. Odgers
M to J. MacPherson, 3 January 1876 is the reply.
MS annotation in the letter book: ‘Letters similar to that on page 1070 [i.e. the original letter in this series which was addressed to the Clerk of the Legislative Assembly]. No. 5171 was sent to the Government Botanist. W. Odgers to M, 17 December 1875, has the identical request, in slightly different language.
Please cite as “FVM-75-12-20,” 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