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Y71/11580, unit 576, VPRS 3991/P inward registered correspondence VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria. 71.09.11

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Ferdinand von Mueller to Charles Gavan Duffy, 1871-09-11. 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/1870-9/1871/71-09-11-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

Melbourne bot. Garden
11/9/71
Sir
I have the honor to solicit, that you will be pleased to sanction the transmission of £100 (one hundred pounds Sterling) out of the vote for publication of plants to the Agent General, for the purpose of being paid to Mr Geo. Bentham, the President of the Linnean Society, as the monetary contribution of the Victorian Government towards the 6th vol. of the Flora Australiensis
1
Bentham (1863-78).
for which subsidy thirty copies of the volume (now under progress) will be received.
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The request was repeated in M to C. Duffy, 3 October 1871 (in this edition as 71-10-03b).
I have the honor to be
your obedient servant
Ferd. von Mueller,
Gov. Botanist and
Director of bot. Garden
The honorable the Chief Secretary