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M65/3942, unit 101, VPRS 3991/Pinward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria. 65.04.29a

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Ferdinand von Mueller to James McCulloch, 1865-04-29 [65.04.29a]. 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/65-04-29a>, accessed April 19, 2025

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See also M to C. Darling, 18 August 1864, and notes thereto.
Melbourne botan Garden
29/4/65.
Sir
I have the honor to inform you, that by last mail the Deputy Accountant and Auditor General of the Madras Government has forwarded to me the sum of fifty pounds Sterling (£50. -. -) for the purchase of seeds of Victorian timber trees. The Government of Victoria having disbursed already thirty pounds Sterling for this purpose before, I have the honor to enquire, whether I shall expend the whole sum transmitted to me, or whether I shall out of it refund the £30. -. - previously expended by the treasury.
I have the honor to be
Sir,
your most obedient servant
Ferd. Mueller.
The honorable the Chief Secretary.
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There is a note on the file: 'See vote 28 at Estimates page 78 purchase of seeds to be [provided] to the Govt of Madras'. On 3 May 1865 the Under Secretary, J. Moore, minuted: 'Ask Dr Mueller to call on Chief Secretary’. On 8 May Moore added: 'The Chief Secretary is of opinion that the £30 already expended on seeds should be repaid to the Treasury out of the remittance of £50 received by Dr Mueller'. M replied on 19 May: 'The sum of thirty pounds has been paid accordingly into the treasury.'