Ferdinand von Mueller

Melbourne botanic & zoological Garden,

31 January 1861.

Sir

I have the honor to inform you for communication to the City-Council, that the heavy rain of this day has caused considerable damage to the botanic Garden, a quantity of debris being forced into our ground with a stream of water from the road along our eastern fence, where the filling up of a water hole has been recently effected without means being simultaneously adopted for draining the water into the Yarra.

I further beg to avail myself of this occasion to bring under the favorable consideration of his Worship the Mayor and the other gentlemen of the Municipality, that it would be highly desirable to cause arrangements to be made, that the water, which flows now near opposite the Botanical Hotel from the Domain road into this garden, may run in an appropriate gutter along the foot path onward.

The Town clerk of Melbourne.

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E. FitzGibbon to M, 8 February 1861 reported that M's requests were placed before the Council's Public Works Committee and referred by the Committee to the City Surveyor.