Melbourne,
16/5/78.
W .H. Odgers Esqr.
Undersecretary.
Sir,
In reply to your telegram just received1 I have the honor to inform you, that out of the very small votes granted to the Gov. Botanists Department for this year no savings could possibly be effected, indeed the sums available not even being sufficient to carry on the lithographic work for the Eucalyptus Atlas,2 nor the Laboratory operations, nor several other obligations, which I was anxious to have carried out this year.
I have the honor to be,
Sir, your obedient servant
Ferd. von Mueller,
Gov. Botanist.
Please cite as “FVM-78-05-16,” 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