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 December2 1879.
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Particulars of Vote |
Amount of Estimates previously approved. |
Estimate* of Expenditure for two months |
Remarks. |
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Division and Subdivision. |
Item. |
Amount. |
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£ |
s. |
d. |
£ |
s. |
d. |
£ |
s. |
d. | |||
| 14/1 | Salaries |
1200 |
4003 |
- |
- |
2004 |
- |
- |
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| 14/2 | Museum Material & Plants |
130 |
43 |
6 |
8 |
21 |
13 |
45 |
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|
" |
Books — Incidental Expenses |
300 |
133 |
6 |
8 |
70 |
16 |
86 |
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|
" |
Publication of Work |
200 |
66 |
13 |
47 |
33 |
6 |
88 |
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|
" |
Paper for lithograms |
75 |
12 |
10 |
- |
12 |
10 |
- |
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|
" |
Towards Flora Australiensis |
135 |
20 |
16 |
8 |
- |
- |
-9 |
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|
2030 |
676 |
13 |
4 |
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| Total — Three hundred and thirty eight pounds six shillings and eight pence |
£ |
338 |
6 |
810 |
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Approved:
Signature [GB] Date 1/1279 |
Signature of the Officer authorized to certify to accounts Ferd. von Mueller. Date 26/11/79 |
two crossed out, replaced by one.
31st December crossed out, replaced by 30th November.
400 crossed out, replaced by 392.
200 crossed out, replaced by 100.
21 13 4 crossed out, replaced by 11 - -.
70 16 8 crossed out, replaced by 36 - -.
This and the two entries above it in this column have been ticked.
33 6 8 crossed out, replaced by 17 - -.
The entries for the items 'Paper for lithograms' and 'Towards Flora Australiensis' have been crossed out. M had earlier sought permission to use the latter allocation to employ a collector, or 'the purchase of plants purposelly collected' (see M to W. Odgers, 27 September 1879) and, it would appear, had already spent some money in that way. Since the 7th and final volume of Flora australiensis had appeared in March 1878, such expenditure could only have been justified as being directed towards the preparation of the envisaged supplementary volume, which was never in fact published.
This figure was first reduced to 325 16 8, corresponding to the deletion of the item for 'Paper for Lithograms', and then reduced to 164 following the changing of all figures to cover one month's expenditure rather than two.
MS written by G. Luehmann and signed by M. The alterations noted below are in a different hand, probably that of somebody in the Chief Secretary's Office.
Please cite as “FVM-79-11-26a,” 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