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No. 6414, vol. 1871 Z, VPRS 1168/P inward correspondence registers, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria. 71.05.18Preferred Citation:
Ferdinand von Mueller to James McCulloch, 1871-05-18. 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/1870-9/1871/71-05-18-final.odt>, accessed June 17, 2026
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Letter not found; item is a register entry only, of a letter dated 18 May 1871.
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It is probable that M had known of a question that Robert Simson intended to ask in the Legislative Council. On 23 May, Simson 'asked the Minister of Customs whether it was the intention of the Government to put
up a new fence along the St. Kilda road on the western side of the reserve known as
the Government Domain, before the valuable trees planted there had been destroyed
by stray cattle or otherwise?' The minister replied 'that provision was made for the
purpose in the Estimates now before the Legislative Assembly' (Victoria, Parliamentary
debates [Hansard]. Session 1871, p. 303).
In M to E. FitzGibbon, 6 April 1871, attention was drawn to the 'defective state of the fences from the Barracks to Princes Bridge'.