To Graham Berry   20 October 1883

Melbourne,

20 Oct. 1883.

To the honorable Graham Berry, M.L.A.

Chief Secretary.

 

Sir.

I have the honor to report, that the 38 cases, containing the Sonderian collections of dried plants,1 arrived at the end of last week by the S.S. Marsala, and were cleared and placed by the Stores- and Transport-Department into the Railway-Shed at the Hobson's Bay-Station, awaiting the completion of the iron-annex to the bot. Museum. This annex will likely be finished in the course of the next week so far, as to admit of the location of these 38 cases there then. The requisite fittings and shelves will soon be provided by the public works Department, when these collections will be put into systematic order, catalogued and rendered accessible for use.2

I have the honor to be,

Sir,

your obedient servant

Ferd. von Mueller.

1
See M to G. Berry, 24 September 1883.
2
See also M to G. Berry, 14 November 1883 (in this edition as 83-11-14a).

Please cite as “FVM-83-10-20a,” 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 28 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/83-10-20a