Melbourne
27 March 1889.
H. Moors Esq.
Acting Undersecretary.
Sir
In accordance with your circular 2138, dated 25 March,1 I have the honor to submit in duplo herewith an estimate of the expenditure for such public works, buildings and repairs, as I deem requisite during the finance-year of 1889-1890 in the Government Botanists Department.2
I have the honor to be,
Sir, your obed. servant,
signed ferd von Mueller,
Gov. Botanist
Estimate of public works, buildings and repairs of the Govt. Botanists Department during the finance-year 1889-1890.
Addition and Repairs to the botanic Museum £180.- .-3
signed ferd von Mueller
Gov. Botanist
Circular not found.
On 17 April 1889, the Under Secretary, T. Wilson, noted: 'For submission to the Minister'. The Chief Secretary, A. Deakin, added the same day: 'Print'. The amount requested was included in the Estimates for 1889-90, under 'Sundry works, Melbourne' (Estimates of the revenue and expenditure for the year ending 30th June 1890, Parliamentary paper 1889. B 5, p. 76).The item at £180 was included as 'Fittings and repairs at the Botanic Museum' in the list of works approved when the vote for the Commissioner of Public Works was passed on the Legislative Assembly on 15 October 1889 (Victoria Votes and proceedings of the Legislative Assembly, session 1889, vol. 1, p. 224). The work was evidently not carried out as the same amount for the same project was submitted for the Estimates in the following year; see M to T. Wilson, 25 March 1890, and notes thereto.
The projected expenditure has been marked with double lines in the margin.
Letter not found; MS is a copy presumably made at the Chief Secretary's Office.
Please cite as “FVM-89-03-27,” 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