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Unit 3, pp. 288-9, VPRS 7934/P1 outward letter press copy books to other departments and district land offices, VA 538 Department of Crown Lands and Survey, Public Record Office, Victoria. 66.01.08

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Clement Hodgkinson to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1866-01-08. 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/1860-9/1866/66-01-08-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

Office of Lands and Survey
Melbourne, 8th January, 1866.
Sir,
I have the honor to acknowledge receipt of your letter of the 28th ultimo
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M to C. Hodgkinson, 28 December 1865.
asking the permission of the Board of Land and Works to remove a quantity of gravel from the Government House reserve, for use in the Botanical Gardens reserve.
In reply, I have to inform you that the Board of Land and Works have authorized you to obtain gravel in the reserve named from a site of two (2) acres to be selected in such a position as not to interfere with the site in that reserve from whence gravel is being obtained for reserves vested in the Board of Land and Works; — and, subject to the same arrangements as are observed in procuring gravel from the latter, viz that concurrently with the taking of the gravel the top soil to be again brought to a smooth surface.
I have the honor to be,
Sir,
Your most obedient Servant,
C. Hodgkindon
Assistant Commissioner of Lands and Survey.
Ferdinand Mueller, Esq.
Government Botanist
&c &c&c