Melbourne,
18/3/84.
T. R. Wilson Esqre
Undersecretary.
Sir
In reply to your last memorandum1 I have the honor to inform you, that the Customs Entries, Landing, Warehousing, Cartage, Lighterage, transshipment charges insurance agents commission and freight for the Giant-Todea in London and from thence to St. Petersburg amounted to £15.8.6, which sum was paid by myself, and for which payment I have a receipt from Mess. Watson & Scull, Shipping Agents, Thames-Street, London. The expenses for landing, conveyance from the Port to the botanic Garden in Petersburg and locating this Giant Fern there were defrayed by the Director of that great and magnificent institution, and this expenditure must have been very large, as a wall of one of the Conservatories had to be pulled down, to admit this extraordinary specimen, no door of any of the Glasshouses being large enough for entrance of this fern there.
I have the honor to be
Sir,
your obedient servant
Ferd. von Mueller2
Todea
See T. Wilson to M, 14 March 1884 (in this edition as 84-03-14a); also M to G. Berry, 18 March 1884 (in this edition as 84-03-18b), and T. Wilson to M, 2 April 1884.
Wilson forwarded M's letter to E. Thomas, Secretary to the Premier, on 20 March.
This letter was first registered as B84/2646 in the Chief Secretary's Department then referred to the Premier.
Please cite as “FVM-84-03-18a,” 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