Ferdinand von Mueller

Melbourne botan. Garden

12/7/70.

Yesterday, dear Mr Montefiore, I was informed at the industrial Museum by Mr Tulk, that the trustees require a formal application for my using duplicate timber specimens for the Sydney Exhibition.

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Agricultural Society of New South Wales Metropolitan Intercolonial Exhibition, Sydney, 1870.

I now make this application accordingly. It may be right for me to point out, that Mr Moore left his Sydney woods in our Exhibition,

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Intercolonial Exhibition of Australasia, Melbourne, 1866-7?

and it is therefore but right and fair, that we should reciprocate for this act of generosity, to which he was induced by my solicitations.

Allow me further to remark, that much of the wood in a crude state now in the exhibition building was sent by myself, either as the gift of private friends or procured by myself. I take now this opportunity to ask permission, to remove a portion of duplicates, among them the remaining surplus woods from Queensland, which Mons Thozet of Muellersville presented to me, a full set having been placed in order for our industrial museum, and is there now in a polished state. The surplus is left in a crude state. I avail myself of this opportunity also to state that with Mr Newberry's concurrence a carpenter on special pay of the Sydney Exhibition Commission is preparing the wood for the transmission to Sydney.