The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: Melbourne bot ¶ Garden 20/5/68. ¶ Sir ¶ ¶ I have to thank you for your communication, dated 18 May and just received, ¶ in reply to which I beg to inform you, that Ferry-Keeper Brandon, has since my...

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68/6726, unit 138, VPRS 44 inward registered and unregistered correspondence, VA 538 Department of Crown Lands and Survey, Public Record Office, Victoria. 68.05.20c

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Ferdinand von Mueller to Clement Hodgkinson, 1868-05-20 [68.05.20c]. 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/1860-9/1868/68-05-20c-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

Letter marked: 'Noted — put up 26.5.68 CH'.

Melbourne bot

Garden 20/5/68.

Sir

I have to thank you for your communication, dated 18 May and just received,

See C. Hodgkinson to M, 18 May 1868.

in reply to which I beg to inform you, that Ferry-Keeper Brandon, has since my last communication

See M to J. Grant, 1 May 1868 (in this edition as 68-05-01a).

effected some repairs of the walks and improvements to the river-bank near his place. I shall consider it my duty to inform you of any future necessity of improvement, should the ferry-keeper again be inattentive to the needful measures for the safety and convenience of the public.

John Yeoman, Crown Land Bailiff, was instructed to report on the matter and his report, dated 28 May 1868, in which he found the path in question 'very good and substantial … clean and safe and partly fenced', was forwarded to M on 5 June 1868. The report was marked by M: 'The dangerous state of the path near Brandons ferry was rendered safe after my final report to the hon the Commissioner of Lands & Survey, my repeated remonstrances to the Ferry-Keeper before were not attended to before. Ferd Mueller 5/6/86.'

I have the honor to be, Sir

your very obedient

Ferd. Mueller

Cl. Hodgkinson Esq.