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Unit 2, VPRS 1199 Chief Commissioner's inward correspondence, VA 724 Victoria Police, Public Record Office, Victoria. 59.09.26Preferred Citation:
Ferdinand von Mueller to Frederick Standish, 1859-09-26. 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/1850-9/1859/59-09-26-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026
Melbourne bot. & zool Garden
26. Sept. 1859.
My dear Capt. Standish.
I trust you will pardon me, when in my anxious desire to carry on the botanical survey
of Australia, I venture to ask, whether it would be possible to supply an officer
of my department for two or three weeks with a police-horse at Pleasant Creek,
for the purpose of enabling him to collect at this season the native plants in the
neighbourhood of Lake Hindmarsh for my work on the indigenous vegetation.
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Now Stawell, Vic.
It would be too expensive both in money & time to furnish him with a horse here, so
that I intend, if you could grant him the favor I seek for, to send Mr Dallachy by
the mail cart to Pleasant Creek.
Most regardfully
yours
Ferd. Mueller
Capt. Standish,
Chief Commissioner of police
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