Chief Secretary's Office
Melbourne 26 June 1877
Sir,
I have the honor to inform you that the Chief Secretary has been requested to furnish to the Government of India at the proper season of the year four ounces of good seed of the Eucalyptus Globulus for experimental cultivation in the Kangra district of the Punjab, and I am to request that you will be so good as to cause the seed to be supplied to this office for transmission accordingly.1
I have the honor to be,
Sir,
Your most obedient servant
W. H. Odgers
The Government Botanist2
Eucalyptus globulus
On 16 May 1877, G. Batten, Officiating Secretary to the Department of Revenue, Agriculture and Commerce, Government of India, wrote from Simla to the Chief Secretary, Victoria, asking for '4 ounces of good seed of the Eucalyptus Globulus for experimental cultivation in the Kangra district of the Punjab', to be sent to the departmental office in Calcutta (L77/7108, unit 952, VPRS 3991/P, Public Record Office, Victoria).
M supplied seed, see M to W. Odgers, 27 June 1877.
Please cite as “FVM-77-06-26a,” 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