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No.788, pp. 203-4, unit 96, VPRS 1187/P, outward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria. 92.01.15

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Thomas Wilson to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1892-01-15. 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/92-01-15>, accessed August 12, 2025

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The file includes two earlier drafts of this letter, one heavily edited.
15 Jan. [18]92
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editorial addition.
Sir,
In reply to your letter of the 1st. instant,
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See M to A. McLean, 1 January 1892.
I am directed to inform you that the question of the control and management of the Botanical Museum after the 31st. March next will shortly receive consideration, and that as soon as a decision shall have been arrived at I shall have the honor of further communicating with you on the subject.
Meantime I am to request you will be good enough at once to give each member of your staff a written notice that as the establishment of the Government Botanist will be abolished on the 31st. March next his services will be dispensed with from that date.
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Register entries respectively dated 20 January and 21 January 1892 record that M forwarded applications from his chief assistant G. Luehmann and the herbarium assistant J. R. Tovey (letters not found) to be transferred to another department (U92/708 and U92/797, VPRS 1168/P, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria). A few days later, when M was informed that his department was not going to be abolished after all, he sought to have the appointments of Luehmann and Tovey in his department continued; see M to T. Wilson, 31 January 1892.
I have the honor to be,
Sir,
Your Obedient Servant
T. R. Wilson
The Government Botanist