The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: 14/11/63. ¶ Dear Mr ¶ ¶ Fitzgibbon, ¶ ¶ If you intend to offer any resistance to the occupation of part of the northern reserve of the bot Garden by the highlanders, it will be necessary to do it at...

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Unit 731, VPRS 3181/P Town Clerk's file series 1, VA 511 Melbourne, Public Record Office, Victoria. 63.11.14a

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Ferdinand von Mueller to Edmund FitzGibbon, 1863-11-14 [63.11.14a]. 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/1860-9/1863/63-11-14a-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

14/11/63.

Dear Mr Fitzgibbon,

If you intend to offer any resistance to the occupation of part of the northern reserve of the bot Garden by the highlanders, it will be necessary to do it at once & energetically, as they have commenced the survey of the locality.

M to R. Heales, 19 January 1864 , requested that the land not be conveyed to the Caledonian Society. On 3 December a deputation from the Caledonian Society met the Chief Secretary , James McCulloc h, 'to solicit the grant of a portion of the Zoological Gardens for the purposes of the society. … They had laid out six acres' . McCulloc h explored objections to the society 's having control of land they used only a few times per year, but said he would speak to Richard Heales, responsible for the Board of Lands and Works ( Herald (Melbourne) , 3 December 1863, p 3 ).

yours very truly

Ferd. Mueller.