Ferdinand von Mueller

Melbourne botanic Garden

17/11/1863.

Sir

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of three fascicles of Capt. Beddome's ferns of Southern India,

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Beddome (1863).

which are deposited amongst the Governments works of this Office,

2

At this period the library comprised M's personal collection as well as items such as this presented or purchased from Government funds. He offered his personal library to the Government in M to J. McCulloch, 15 August 1864, reporting that it had been valued at £1,100, and sold it for £600 in 1865; see M to J. McCulloch, 8 January 1865 and notes thereto, and M to J. McCulloch, 21 January 1865. For a list of the over 1,000 items in the library after the purchase, see 'Catalogue of the Library of the botanical Department, Melbourne' (B65.10.01, pp. 18-25).

and for the transmission of which I beg to tender my best thanks. These fascicles being transmitted to the Victorian Government on the order of Sir Will. Denison, I beg to submit a requisition for a reciprocate to the Madras Government.

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Requisition not found, works requested not identified. Moore minuted approval for M's request and forwarded it to the Government Printer. M noted the action on 23 November 'with best thanks'.

J. Moore Esqr

Undersecretary

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