Chief Secretary's Office
Melbourne 20. Dec. 1879
Sir,
I am directed by the Chief Secretary to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 8th inst.1 requesting that your Report on the Forest resources of Western Australia2 may be sent to certain Institutions &c., and that you may be personally supplied with copies.
I regret to say that the Reports have not yet been received.
I have the honor to be
Sir,
Your most obedient servant
W. H. Odgers
The Government Botanist
&c &c &c
See M to G. Berry, 8 December 1879 (in this edition as 79-12-08b).
B79.13.10, published in London. Copies were received in Melbourne and 25 sent to M for his use; see W. Odgers to M, 15 January 1880.
Document is a printed form (p. 2) with a handwritten record on a separate sheet (p. 509) of entries in the spaces.
Please cite as “FVM-79-12-20a,” 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