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N60/5517, unit 748, VPRS 1189/P inward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria. 60.06.26a

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Ferdinand von Mueller to William Nicholson, 1860-06-26 [60.06.26a]. 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/1860-9/1860/60-06-26a-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

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MS written by Carl Wilhelmi and signed by M.
Melbourne bot. & zool. Garden,
26 June 1860.
Sir
I have the honor to solicit, that you will be pleased to place at my disposal the undermentioned sums for defraying the expenditure in this department during the next quarter of the year.
Wages, according to the scale of the preceeding quarter with the sanction of payment of an additional superior gardener at the rate of 12/ pr diem
£1120
Employment of labor by the job out of the wages fund
80
Publishing work on indigenous plants
80
Purchase of plants
50
Forage
40
Incidental expenses
20
I pray further to be permitted to charge to the incidental fund, applied for, such accounts as remain unpaid from last quarter, the sum available having been quite inadequate to meet the inavoidable casual expenditure during the last months.
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Approval for M's request was minuted to this letter.
I have the honor to be
Sir
your most obedient & humble servant
Ferd. Mueller.
The Honorable the Chief Secretary
&c&c&c