The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: Melbourne botan. & zool. Garden, ¶ 1. Sept. 1858. ¶ Sir ¶ ¶ I have the honor of bringing under your notice, that at South Yarra & likewise occasionally at Richmond goats & other domestic animals are ...

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Unit 2, VPRS 1199 Chief Commissioner's inward correspondence, VA 724 Victoria Police, Public Record Office, Victoria. 58.09.01a

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Ferdinand von Mueller to Frederick Standish, 1858-09-01 [58.09.01a]. 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/1850-9/1858/58-09-01a-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

Melbourne botan. & zool. Garden,

1. Sept. 1858.

Sir

I have the honor of bringing under your notice, that at South Yarra & likewise occasionally at Richmond goats & other domestic animals are allowed to range over the streets & public reserves.

If this is contrary to the existing police-regulations, I should be extremly obliged, for your giving orders to the police at the respective stations, to suppress a custom, which becomes seriously destructive to my plantations.

I have the honor to be

sir,

your humblest servant

Ferd. Mueller, M.D., Ph.D.

Director of the zool. & bot. Gardens.

The honorable the Chief Commissioner of police

Instructions were minuted for M's complaint to be acted upon.