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Unit 733, VPRS 3181/P Town Clerk's file series 1, VA 511 Melbourne, Public Record Office, Victoria. 69.06.13

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Ferdinand von Mueller to Edmund FitzGibbon, 1869-06-13. 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/1860-9/1869/69-06-13-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

Melbourne bot. Garden
13/6/69.
Sir
I have the honor to solicit, that the City Council will be pleased to allow the large lot of Basalt-boulders, stored up by labor of my Department when the Jollimont road was formed, to remain yet for 2 or 3 months longer on their ground, as it was impossible for me to convey them hitherto away, my only two carts being engaged during the drought in carting water and subsequently in the earth work of the season. The few loads of stones placed separately I will soon carry away, but as the carting of the large lot will employ labor for some time, I must crave permission to defer it until the planting season has passed. Thanking again the council to have allowed me by Gardenlabor to secure the stones; I remain your regardful
Ferd. von Mueller. M.D.
The townclerk of Melbourne.
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M's letter was read at a meeting of the Melbourne City Council Health Committee on 16 June 1869, the minutes of which record: 'Chairman instructed to report to Council that as the intention is to use the stones in the public grounds the instruction for their sale be rescinded and that the Director of the Botanical Gardens be allowed to remove them for such purpose at any time within three months' (Unit 1, p. 345, VPRS 4038, Public Record Office, Victoria).
See E. FitzGibbon to M, 25 June 1869. See also M to E. FitzGibbon, 18 June 1869.