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Y71/12100, unit 672, VPRS 3991/P inward registered correspondence VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria. 71.02.11Preferred Citation:
Christian Hoffmann to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1871-02-11. 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/71-02-11>, accessed September 11, 2025
Melbourne
February 11 1871
I hereby acknowledge having received from Dr F. von Mueller the sum of Thirty one
pounds seven shillings Stlg. being the total of salaries for the months of September,
October and part of November 1870 — viz:
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26
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days in Sept.
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1870
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@
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11/. per diem
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£14.6.0
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26
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" " Oct.
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@
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11/. "
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14.6.0
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5
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" " Nov.
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@
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11/. "
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2.15.0
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Total
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£31.7.0
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This money has been paid me under the following circumstances.
At the close of August 1870 Dr F. von Mueller forseeing the impracticability of retaining
my services owing to the reductions in his Department, secured said services for conducting
certain work in connection with the Industrial & Technological Museum: — he having
had a verbal understanding with members of the Commission of that institution that
remuneration for such services would be defrayed by the said Commission - in as much
however as these sums have up to the present date not been passed by them and as I
am on the eve of leaving the Colony, Dr. F. von Mueller has advanced the same to me.
I may add that my time from Sept. 1st 1870 to Nov. 7 1870 was exclusively employed
for the Industrial & Technological Museum.
Christian Hoffmann.
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See M to C. Duffy, 20 September 1871.