QUARTERLY ESTIMATE.
To the Honorable the Chief Secretary
Sir,
I have the honor to submit for approval the following Estimate* of Expenditure during the two months1 ending 31st October 1879.
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Particulars of Vote. |
Amount of Estimates previously approved.2 |
Estimate* of Expenditure for Quarter. |
Remarks. |
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Division and Subdivision. |
Item. |
Amount.3 |
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£ |
s. |
d. |
£ |
s. |
d. |
£ |
s. |
d. |
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| 14/1 | Salaries |
1200 |
– |
4200 |
– |
200 |
– |
– | ||||
| 14/2 | Museum Material & Plants |
130 |
– |
– |
21 |
13 |
4 |
21 |
3 |
4 | ||
| Books, Incidental Expenses |
300 |
– |
– |
50 |
– |
– |
83 |
6 |
8 | |||
| Publication of Work |
200 |
– |
– |
33 |
6 |
8 |
33 |
6 |
8 | |||
| Paper for Lithograms5 |
75 |
– |
– |
12 |
10 |
– |
– |
– | – | |||
| Towards Flora Australiensis6 |
125 |
– |
– |
20 |
16 |
8 |
– |
– | – | |||
| Total — Three hundred and thirty eight pounds six shillings and eight pence |
£ |
338 |
6 |
8 |
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Approved:
| Signature [GB] |
Signature of the Officer authorized to certify to accounts Ferd. von Mueller |
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Date |
30th Sep 1879 |
Date |
25/8/79 |
two months over Quarter struck through.
The second, third and fourth entries in this column marked with a tick.
All entries in this column marked with a tick.
200 deleted and 192 inserted above.
Line struck through.
Line struck through; the final volume had been published in 1878. M to G. Berry, 7 September 1878, requested funds for a supplement, or an abridged but supplemented edition, which was approved as an abridged Flora (see M to G. Berry, 3 January 1879). A sum of £125 was included in the vote for the Government Botanist 'Towards the publication of an edition of the Flora Australiensis, approved on 28 January 1880 (Victoria, Votes and Proceedings of the Legislative Assembly, Session 1879-80, p. 239). However, in M to W. Odgers, 27 September 1879, M requested, if permitted by the Audit Act, to use this amount for 'employment of a collector or purchase of plants purposely collected'. He asked the same question in M to G. Berry, 24 January 1880. Although replies have not been found, it appears as if M had already spent some of the amount in this way, but could not continue to do so.
Data entered by G. Luehmann and signed by M.
Please cite as “FVM-79-09-25,” 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