Chief Secretary's Office
Melbourne 6 June 18841
Urgent
Memo.
The enclosed proof of the portion relating to the Government Botanist's Department of the return required by Section 20 of the Public Service Act 18832 to be published in the Government Gazette is forwarded to Baron von Mueller with the request that he will indicate thereon any alterations or corrections in the statement of duties he may consider necessary
It is also particularly requested that the date of first appointment, and number of years service, of each of the officers may be carefully checked, and that the return may be sent back to me with the least possible delay for re-transmission to the Public Service Board.3
Document is a copy of a circular sent to heads of 15 branches of the Chief Secretary's Office, with spaces where the names of specific branches and the officers in charge of them were to be inserted. An accompanying list shows that No. 1679 was addressed to ‘The Government Botanist’.
See also T. Wilson to M, 30 June 1884 (in this edition as 84-06-30b).
Copy is not signed but the memorandum would have been sent by the Under Secretary.
The 'Return under Section No. 20 … of Persons employed in the Public Service of Victoria on 29 February 1884 (exclusive of Teachers in the Education Department)' was published in Victoria government gazette, no. 103, 3 September 1884. M's department is listed at p. 2490.
Please cite as “FVM-84-06-06a,” 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