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N60/4812, unit 748, VPRS 1189/P inward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria. 60.06.06

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Ferdinand von Mueller to William Nicholson, 1860-06-06. 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/1860-9/1860/60-06-06-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

Melbourne bot. & zool Garden,
6. June 1860.
Sir
I have the honor to solicit, that you will be pleased to place at my disposal the sum of eighty pounds Sterling out of the votes for wages of this establishment for defraying expenses for such occasional works as cannot be performed by daily labour & therefore regularly charged in the ordinary paysheets of monthly expenditure. I beg further to pray, that I may be authorized by your Honor to include in the accounts, to be liquidated out of the above sum, such claims as arose in making preparations for the temporary charge & for the safe reshipment of the Salmon ova or fry, expected to arrive pr "S. Curling" for the Tasmanian Government,
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See M to W. Henty, 15 May 1860. Approval for M's requests was minuted to this letter.
should no other vote be available for this purpose.
I have the honor to be,
Sir,
your most obedient & humble servant,
Ferd. Mueller.
The honorable the Chief Secretary.