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M59/9600, unit 747, VPRS 1189 inward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria. 59.09.16a

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Ferdinand von Mueller to John O'Shanassy, 1859-09-16 [59.09.16a]. 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/1850-9/1859/59-09-16a-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

Melbourne bot. & zool. Garden,
16. Sept. 59.
Sir
I have the honor to solicit, that you will be pleased to sanction the following expenditure in my establishment during the last quarter of the year.
Salaries and wages (according to former scale)
£1420
Purchase of plants
£50
Expense of publishing works on indigenous plants of Victoria
£140
Fencing paddock, stabling and other incidental expenses
£195
Transfer of £150 from the vote of "forage & food for animals," to be expended in the construction of tanks & the requisite pipes for providing water to several parts of the garden and particularly also for the animals of the menagerie
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See also M to J. Were, 16 September 1859 (in this edition as 59.09.16c).
£150
I have the honor to be,
Sir,
your most obedient & humble servant
Ferd Mueller.
The honorable the Chief Secretary
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M's request was approved.