The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: ¶ [The Town Clerk read the following correspondence : — … ¶ ¶ From the Director of the Botanic Gardens, Melbourne, offering to supply the Council with trees and plants, for the decoration of the re...

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64.07.00

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Ferdinand von Mueller to the Moonambel Borough Council, 1864-07. 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/1860-9/1864/64-07-00-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

Letter not found. For the text given here, see the report of the meeting of the Borough Council held on 13 July 1864 (Avoca mail, 16 July 1864, p. 2).

[The Town Clerk read the following correspondence : — …

From the Director of the Botanic Gardens, Melbourne, offering to supply the Council with trees and plants, for the decoration of the reserve; but advising the Council to defer the selection until another season.]

After discussion the 'Town Clerk was further instructed to inform Dr Mueller, the Director of the Botanic Gardens, that, acting on his suggestion, the Council would defer their application for trees and plants'.