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A345 Royal ParkTrusteesletter and minute book, p. 29-30, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney 69.03.11Preferred Citation:
Ferdinand von Mueller to the James Grant, 1869-03-11. 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/1860-9/1869/69-03-11-final.odt>, accessed June 15, 2026
Melbourne Bot. Garden
11/3/69
Sir
I have the honor to inform you that great difficulty has arisen at the Royal Park
for maintaining order and obedience to the regulations in consequence of no official
appointment of a bailiff having as yet been made since the resignation of Mr Sprigg.
The trustees of the Royal Park on the 27th Oct. 1868
submitted for your favorable consideration that the present superintendent of the
park Mr Eugene Lissignol might as a honorary officer be entrusted also by the Board
of Land and Works with the power of acting as Crownland Ranger like his predecessor.
Great damage has since arisen there in consequence of mutilation of fences, invasion
of cattle and even by open and insulting disregard to the Rules of the Board of Land
and Works, so much so that the present custodian of the ground is all but powerless
in any attempted exercise of his function.
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Lissignol was appointed Bailiff on 15 March 1869 (Victoria Government gazette, 19 March 1869, p. 465).
I have the honor to be
Sir
Your very obedient
(Signed) Ferd von Mueller
The honorable the President of the Board of Land and Works.