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F58/2411, unit 745, VPRS 1189 inward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria. 58.03.21Preferred Citation:
Ferdinand von Mueller to John O'Shanassy, 1858-03-21. 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//letters/1850-9/1858/58-03-21-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026
Melbourne bot. Garden
21. March 1858
Sir
I have the honor to solicit your permission of closing the botanic gardens for visitors
on Friday and Saturday morning in this week, and to levy at the gates a fee for the
admission to the Horticultural Society's autumnal exhibition during the afternoons
of those days, such having been likewise the custom on all former occasions.
The fee fixed for visitors, who are not members of the society, is to be 2/6d from
1 o'cl. p.m. and 1/ from 3 o'cl. p.m.
I have the honor to be,
Sir,
your most obedient and humble servant
Ferd. Mueller
Direct. of the bot. Gard. & Chairm. of the Counc. of Hort. Soc.
The honorable the Chief Secretary
&c&c&c
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O'Shanassy approved M's request. See also J. Moore to M, 23 March 1858.