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Unit 1, pp. 533-4, VPRS 7936/P1 outward letterbooks of the Secretary for Lands, VA 538 Department of Crown Lands and Survey, Public Record Office, Victoria. 65.02.28a

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Clement Hodgkinson to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1865-02-28 [65.02.28a]. 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/1860-9/1865/65-02-28a-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

Office of Lands & survey
Melbourne, 28th Feby 1865.
Dear Sir,
I beg to acknowledge receipt of your favor of the 21st instant,
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Letter not found. J. Lewis to M, 20 February 1865, asked for advice on the treatment of two species of Araucaria.
and to thank you for the valuable suggestions conveyed therein which I will at once carry out as far as practicable.
I shall be exceedingly glad if on some day during the next month (March) you will meet me in order to make a formal inspection of the plants in the public parks vested in the Board of Land and Works, and that you may subsequently favor the Board with advice with regard to the future treatment of the plants.
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No report of any formal inspection has been found.
I would mention that I carefully conformed to the verbal directions you formerly gave me with regard to the treatment of the Pinus Insignis, — and I am happy to state that the growth of the few of those plants placed in the Fitzroy Garden and the Flagstaff Reserve, has been unprecedentedly vigorous.
The fish in Fitzroy Garden are nearly all of a black or grey color. I will, however, endeavour in the course of a few days to have some of them caught for His Excellency.
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No written request for supplying fish for the Governor has been found at this period..
I remain,
My dear Sir,
Yours very truly,
C. Hodgkinson
Dr Mueller,
Government Botanist,
&c. &c.&c.
Pinus Insignis