POST OFFICE TELEGRAPHS.
From. Observatory Dated 5/10/83
Telegram for. T. R. Wilson Esq
Under Secretary
Additional Estimates Eighty (80) lithographic plates two hundred pounds1 | plaster Ceiling botanic Museum cracked recently danger to life replacement by double wooden Ceiling seventy five pounds2
(Signature) Ferd Von Mueller
Justified in detail in M to G. Berry, 5 October 1883. In the Additional Estimates tabled in Parliament on 18 October 1883 (Parliamentary Paper, 1883, 2 S.–B.–No. 21, p. 7) the amount of £200 was included in the sums for the Chief Secretary under 'Miscellaneous' as 'Expense of publishing Decades, &c', without specifiying it was for the Government Botanist.
In the Additional Estimates for the Public Works (p. 20), under 'Sundry Works, Melbourne', the description of the previous sum of £450 for 'Iron Annexe to the Botanic Museum' was changed to 'Iron Annexe and Repairs to the Botanic Museum'.
Please cite as “FVM-83-10-05b,” 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