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No. 3069, p. 234, unit 23, VPRS 1187/P, outward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office of Victoria 70.11.05Preferred Citation:
William Odgers to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1870-11-05. 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/1870-9/1870/70-11-05-final.odt>, accessed June 15, 2026
Chief Secretary's Office.
Melbourne, 5th November 1870
Sir,
I am directed by the Chief Secretary to request that you will have the goodness to
forward to the Industrial and Technological Museum at the Public Library the phytological
collection recently exhibited at Sydney
and which Sir James McCulloch is informed has now been returned to your custody.
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Agricultural Society of New South Wales Metropolitan Intercolonial Exhibition, Sydney,
1870. M to J. McCulloch, 13 July 1879 (in this edition as 70-07-13a), sought permission to send exhibits. There appears to have been some confusion when
the cases were returned from Sydney, about which items belonged to the Public Library and Museum, which to the Government Botanist's Department, and which to M: see A. Neate to M, 4 November 1870 (in this edition as 70-11-04a), and M to R. Barry, 4 November 1970.
I have the honor to be,
Sir,
Your most obedient Servant
(Sd) W. H. Odgers
The Director of the Botanic Gardens.