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Physical location:

VPRS 5834/P0/1, inward correspondence p. 89, VA 1411 Industrial and Technological Museum, Public Record Office, Victoria. 70.12.05b

Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to Marcus Clarke, 1870-12-05 [70.12.05b]. 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/1870-9/1870/70-12-05b-final.odt>, accessed June 9, 2026

Melbourne bot Garden,
5/12/70.
I hope you will see, dear Mr Clarke, that Mr Hoffmanns pay for Sept, Oct. and November is past
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passed?
on Tuesday, as it is not just to keep him so long out of his remuneration, to which he is rightly and fairly entitled. If no quorum is formed at the meeting, you might oblige me and him very easily by going to the few members of the Committee of the Industrial Museum and get individually their sanction to this pay, in order that Mr Hoffmann may not be harassed by wants any longer.
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MS annotations: ‘Rec & Reg. 18th Jan 71’ and 'Dr Mueller letters in re S. Exh'. See M to M. Clarke, 14 November 1870. M. Clarke to M, 17 November 1870 (in this edition as 70-11-17b), and M. Clarke to M, 5 December 1870 (in this edition as 70-12-05c).
your regardful
Ferd. von Mueller