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S61/791, unit 749, VPRS 1189/P inward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria. 61.01.25

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Ferdinand von Mueller to John Moore, 1861-01-25. R.W. Home, Thomas A. Darragh, A.M. Lucas, Sara Maroske, D.M. Sinkora, J.H. Voigt and Monika Wells (eds), Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller, <https://vmcp.rbg.vic.gov.au/id/61-01-25>, accessed September 11, 2025

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The Government Storekeeper wrote to the Chief Secretary, R. Heales, on 4 January 1861: 'I have the honor to forward for your information copy of a letter addressed to me by the Honorary Secretary to the Exploration Committee, in reference to the rationing of the Indian in charge of the Camels at the Royal Park, and to request that I may be authorised to supply food on a regulated ration to this man and forage to the Camels. A small stock of food has been issued but I do not feel at liberty to continue supplying without authority.' (S61/170, unit 749, VPRS 1189, Public Record Office, Victoria).
Melbourne bot & zool. Garden
25 Jan 1861.
Sir
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of some papers relative to the scale of rations required for the Camels & their attendant, and in reply I beg to inform you, that I shall not fail to lay them for their opinion before the Gentlemen of the zoological Committee at the next meeting (on the first of Febr. 1861.)
I have the honor to be,
Sir,
your most obedient servant
Ferd. Mueller.
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On 12 February 1861, Moore instructed: 'Dr Mueller will oblige by keeping this correspondence with the other papers referred to him recently'.
See also M to J. Moore, 4 February 1861.
Mr Undersecretary Moore