Returned with best thanks to the hon. the Chief Secretary for his approval of an abridged flora of Australia being brought out in Victoria2 and I beg now respectfully to suggest, that on the next estimate the sum of £250 - - be specially provided for the printing of the first volume through public tender.
Ferd. von Mueller.
3/1/79.
MS is a note by M on a file containing copies of two printed letters sent to the Victorian Government from London and forwarded to M by the Chief Secretary. The first is a letter from Joseph Hooker to Robert Meade, Assistant Under-Secretary, Colonial Office, announcing the publication 'of the seventh and concluding volume of the "Flora Australiensis"'; see J. Hooker to R. Meade, 24 July 1878 (in this edition as M78-07-24). The other is a reply to Hooker signed by R. G. W. Herbert. The file also includes a covering letter to the Chief Secretary from Michael Hicks Beach, Secretary of State, Downing Street, that concludes, ‘I request that you will cause copies of these two letters to be transmitted to Dr Von Mueller, who has rendered such zealous assistance to the undertaking’.
See M to G. Berry, 7 September 1878.
Please cite as “FVM-79-01-03,” 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