Document information

Physical location:

No. 633, unit 823, VPRS 3181/P Town Clerk's file series 1, VA 511 Melbourne City Council, Public Record Office, Victoria. 64.08.15a

Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to Edmund FitzGibbon, 1864-08-15 [64.08.15a]. 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/1860-9/1864/64-08-15a-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

Length of approach from Punt road to the bridge of the botanic Garden approximately 500 yards, 400 of which to be shaped into a path with a drain along the upper side and two small cultverts
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culverts?
20 chains at 10/—
£10. -. -
100 yards to be raised and a large culvert fixed
£10. -. -
£20. -. -
The approach from Jolimont to the zoological Ground is quite impassable for several month in the year. As any path on the Jolimont road itself would be destroyed by Cattle, it would be best to establish a line of foothpath diagonally from the railway to the western gate of the zoological Ground, for which the following outlay would be incurred
28 chains double drain and forming a footpath 6' wide at 12/ pr chain
£16.
16/
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Carting and spreading 100 loads of stone obtained in the zoologic reserve 2/ pr load
10.
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£26.
16.
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For the Jollimont path 80 Iron treeguards could be furnished from the botanic Garden and thus the path be lined with an avenue, if £20. -. - were devoted for the conveyance of the guards & their reconstruction.
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M's letter was read at a meeting of the Melbourne City Council's Health Committee on 16 August 1864: 'Town Clerk instructed to acknowledge the receipt of the letter and thank Dr Mueller for his suggestions but stating that the committee are not prepared at present to entertain the subject' (Unit 1, VPRS 4039, Public Record Office, Victoria). No letter of acknowledgment has been found.
Ferd. Mueller
15/8/64.