Document information

Physical location:

P84/375, unit 22, VPRS 1163/P1 inward correspondence, VA 1123 Premier, Public Record Office, Victoria. 84.03.04

Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to Thomas Wilson, 1884-03-04. 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/84-03-04>, accessed April 21, 2025

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This letter was first registered as B84/2251 in the Chief Secretary's Department, then referred to the Premier. See also T. Wilson to M, 3 March 1884, and T. Wilson to M, 14 March 1884 (in this edition as 84-03-14a).
Memorandum of cost of gigantic Todea for St Petersburg horticultural Exhibition.
(Weight without fronds and case about 4000 lb.)
Paid to Mr Gessner
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F. W. Gessner?
for bringing the Fern from the back-ranges of Dandenong to Melbourne (charged to vote for purchase of plants)
£9.15.0
Paid to Mr Callander for large strong case specially made (charged to incid. expens)
£6.5.0
Paid to Mr Morley
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Morley & Co., cartage contractors?
for removal to railway (charged to incidental expenses)
£1.15.0
Freight to London (charged to incidental expenses)
£15
32.15.0
Ferd. von Mueller.
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Wilson wrote to the Premier on 7 March: 'From the attached reply of the Government Botanist it appears that the whole of the expense has been charged to the votes of his Department. Baron von Mueller's minute of the 30th March 1883 on the attached file 42984 [see footnotes to M to G. Berry, 19 March 1883] (which has already been referred for the information of the Hon. the Premier) shows the circumstances under which the fern was sent to St. Petersburg'. E. Thomas, Secretary to the Premier, replied the next day: 'I beg to point out that the Despatch from the Secretary of State refers to the cost of transport to St Petersburgh — the within memorandum only gives cost of transport to London '.
4/3/84.