Ferdinand von Mueller

Translation received 12 June 1871, the date on which it was registered (No. 7517, vol. 1871 Z, VPRS 1168/P inward correspondence registers, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria).

Neither the original documents nor the translation has been found. They were almost certainly part of the 'long series of additional papers, works, and statistics, many of which had been collected in Germany' in response to a request from the Premier to the Agent General in London for information on the culture of sugar beet. Two reports in English were included in the material from the Agent General and tabled in the Legislative Assembly on 13 June ( Australasian , 17 June 17871, p. 761). During the budget debates in Parliament on 1 August, the recently appointed Treasurer, Graham Berry, proposed a bounty on the production of sugar from beet, and said 'On this point I would like briefly to call honorable members' attention to the extraordinary development which the industry of manufacturing sugar from beet-root has reached in Europe. I find from a work recently published … ' He then went on to give a summary of the production in Europe (Victoria, Parliamentary Debates, Session 1871, p. 697). The 'work recently published' may have included material translated by M.

Chief Secretary's Office.