4/4/91.
T. R. Wilson Esqr,
Under Secretary
Sir
In accordance with your instructions1 I have called for tenders from three of the larger printing establishments of Melbourne for the printing of the 8th Edition of the Select plants,2 and have the honor now to submit to you these tenders, recommending that Mr Troedels3 as the lowest be accepted for one thousand copies of about 560 pages, at the rate of £7.4.- pr. sheet of 16 pages, therefore £252.- .- for the whole. No extra-payment will be incurred for the binding into strong paper-covers.4
I have the honor to be,
Sir, your obedient servant
Ferd von Mueller
Gov. Botanist
See M to T. Wilson, 19 March 1891, and notes hereto.
B91.13.10.
See C. Troedel & Co. to M, 25 March 1891; Sands & McDougall Ltd to M, 25 March 1891 (in this edition as 91-03-25a); and McCarron Bird & Co. to M, 1 April 1891 (in this edition as 91-04-01a).
The Chief Secretary, J. M. Davies, accepted M's recommendation on 8 April 1891 and the information was referred to M the next day by H. Moors, Acting Under Secretary, with the note: ‘I shall be glad of the early return of this file when noted'. M returned the file on 11 April 'with grateful acknowledgement’, noting that ‘The printing will be pushed on as quickly as possible'. The Chief Secretary forwarded the file to the Governor in Council with the recommendation that 'the under-mentioned sevices be performed without tenders being advertised for the same, viz: — Printing 1000 copies of the 8th Edition of Baron Von Mueller's work on "Select Plants" to cost £252'.
Please cite as “FVM-91-04-04,” 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