The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: ¶ [Dr Mueller has been writing to me this morning with a complaint that as the cool nights are approaching their numbers [prostitutes] are increasing for the amusement of the soldiers.]...

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Bundle 1, unit 7, VPRS 1199 inward correspondence, VA 724 Victoria Police, Public Record Office, Victoria. 68.10.03

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Ferdinand von Mueller to William Trevor, 1868-10-03. 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/1860-9/1868/68-10-03-final.odt>, accessed May 15, 2026

Letter not found; item is a register entry only. On 3 October 1866, Lieut.-Col. W. C. Trevor, 14th Regiment, wrote to the Chief Commissioner of Police, F. Standish: 'Some time ago I mentioned to you that the Botanical Reserve was infested with a gang of prostitutes: the British soldier being the attraction: you kindly sent a Policeman whom I saw walking them off.' He then alluded as above to the letter he had received from M and asked: 'Would you kindly allow a Policeman to take a look round some evening'. Standish sent Trevor's letter on 3 October to Superintendent Lyttleton with the instruction, 'Let a Const. be told off'; a further annotation from Sub-Inspector Ryall indicates that this had been done.

[Dr Mueller has been writing to me this morning with a complaint that as the cool nights are approaching their numbers [prostitutes] are increasing for the amusement of the soldiers.]