Chief Secretary's Office.
Melbourne 12 April 1877
Sir
I have the honor to request that you will be so good as to furnish at your early convenience a statement shewing the sums not likely to be required for expenditure out of the moneys voted for your Department on account of the year 1876-7.1
I have the honor to be,
Sir
Your most obedient Servant2
The Government Botanist
Please cite as “FVM-77-04-12,” 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