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Z71/2063, unit 576, VPRS 3991/P inward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria. 71.02.17a

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Ferdinand von Mueller to James McCulloch, 1871-02-17 [71.02.17a]. 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/1870-9/1871/71-02-17a-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

Melbourne botan. Garden
17/2/71
Sir
I have the honor to inform you, that this day intimation has been given to me by the Water Department, that no Yan Yean water even at night hours will in future be supplied to the botanic Garden. Under these circumstances I have the honor of urging the necessity of obtaining as early as ever possible a spacious tank perhaps best of brick and cement for the copious storage of Yarra Water, pumped up by steam power, the small tank built two years ago being utterly
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An unknown amount of text missing. On 23 February 1871 the Under Secretary, William Odgers, referred M’s letter ‘for the opinion of the Board'. Filed with the MS is a requisition for the tank, ‘for the storage of Yarra water, forced to the summit of the Garden by stem-power’, in M's hand, dated 19 February 1871.