The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: Melbourne bot. & zool. Garden, ¶ 18. July 1861 ¶ Sir ¶ ¶ I have the honor to solicit, that you will be pleased to permit the insertion of the byefollowing ¶ ¶ notice ¶ ¶ into the Governments Gazett...

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S61/5731, unit 749, VPRS 1189/P inward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria. 61.07.18a

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Ferdinand von Mueller to Richard Heales, 1861-07-18 [61.07.18a]. 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/1860-9/1861/61-07-18a-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

Melbourne bot. & zool. Garden,

18. July 1861

Sir

I have the honor to solicit, that you will be pleased to permit the insertion of the byefollowing notice into the Governments Gazette.

I have the honor to be,

Sir,

your obedient servant

Ferd. Mueller.

The honorable the Chief Secretary

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The request was approved. The MS for the advertisement, surely sent as an enclosure despite being dated one day earlier, has not been found; the text given below is from Victoria. Government gazette, no. 110, 19 July 1861 (B61.07.01).

SEA ISLAND COTTON SEEDS FOR DISTRIBUTION.

SEEDS of the Sea Island Cotton may be obtained on personal application at the Botanical Garden.

FERD. MUELLER, M.D.,

Government Botanist.

Melbourne Botanic and Zoological Garden,

17th July, 1861.