Document information

Physical location:

MS 12521 Victorian Horticultural Society records, box 3401, p. 63, La Trobe Australian Manuscripts Collection, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne. 60.11.00c

Preferred Citation:

Thomas McMillan to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1860-11 [60.11.00c]. 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/1860-9/1860/60-11-00c-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

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MS written into minutes of meeting of the Victorian Gardeners' Mutual Improvement Society held on 29 October 1860. The letter was evidently written, however, in early November, the exhibition being held later that month.
To Dr Mueller Director of the Botanic and Zoological Gardens
Sir
It having been proposed at the Meeting of the V. G. M. I. Soc.
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Victorian Gardeners' Mutual Improvement Society.
held on the 29th ult that the members Mr Jno Walters
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i.e. Watters.
of the Botanic Gardens and Mr Wm Smith of the zoological gardens should act as judges at the Horticultural Exhibition to be held on the 22d and 23d inst. I am directed by the Committee to request that you may be good enough to sanction the absence of Messrs Smith and Walters from their respective duties for the purpose stated
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M agreed to the request in M to T. McMillan, 13 November 1860.
I have the honor to be, Sir
your obt Servt
T. McMillan
Hon Sec.