The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: Melbourne botanic Garden ¶ 15/8/1865. ¶ Sir ¶ ¶ I have the honor to inform you, that according to your kind permission I shall proceed to Kilmore this afternoon but return to my office tomorrow morni...

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M65/7463, unit 104, VPRS 3991/P inward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria. 65.08.15

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Ferdinand von Mueller to John Moore, 1865-08-15. 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/1860-9/1865/65-08-15-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

Melbourne botanic Garden

15/8/1865.

Sir

I have the honor to inform you, that according to your kind permission I shall proceed to Kilmore this afternoon but return to my office tomorrow morning.

M went to Kilmore, Vic, to deliver a lecture in support of the efforts of the 'ladies of Kilmore' to raise funds for the Ladies' Leichhardt Search Expedition (Kilmore free press and Counties of Bourke and Dalhousie advertiser, 17 August 1865, p. 3, which prints the text of the lecture, B65.08.02).

I have the honor to be,

Sir,

your obedient servant

Ferd. Mueller.

Mr Undersecretary Moore.