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Unit 731, VPRS 3181/P Town Clerk's file series 1, VA 511 Melbourne, Public Record Office, Victoria. 61.05.30Preferred Citation:
Ferdinand von Mueller to Edmund FitzGibbon, 1861-05-30. 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/1860-9/1861/61-05-30-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026
Melbourne bot. & zool. Garden,
30. May 1861
My dear Mr Fitzgibbon,
I have secured the weeping willows for the Yarra banks
and can aford the labour for digging the holes to plant them, but I do not see how
I can possibly manage to get the protections put up for the trees, my employees being
overwhelmed with work on my own ground during this season.
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See M to E. FitzGibbon, 24 October 1860, and subsequent correspondence.
Allow me therefore to ask, whether there would be any possibility to obtain through
the favor of the Municipality some Mechanics attendance to put up the tree guards,for
which the Council was pleased to grant the material.
You will be aware that the trees are not intended for my own ground, but for that
of the City Council.
In Domain Street opposite Millswyn Street a drain has been built recently, which conveys
the whole of the water collecting on the northern side of the street into the botanic
Garden.
May I solicit your friendly aid to impress on the Gentlemen of the City Council the
desirability of sanctioning, that the channel along the footpath may be deepened from
1 to 1½ foot so as to admit of the proper effluence of the drainage in a westerly direction
With high regard
dear Sir,
yours
Ferd. Mueller.