The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: Melbourne bot Garden, ¶ 21/8/72 ¶ Sir ¶ ¶ I have the honor to submit for your kind consideration the desirability of the byefollowing notice being published in the Governments Gazette. ¶ M may have m...

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G72/18075, unit 750, VPRS 44/P inward registered and unregistered correspondence, VA 538 Department of Crown Lands and Survey, Public Record Office, Victoria. 72.08.21

Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to James Casey, 1872-08-21. 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/1870-9/1872/72-08-21-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

Melbourne bot Garden,

21/8/72

Sir

I have the honor to submit for your kind consideration the desirability of the byefollowing notice being published in the Governments Gazette.

M may have mis-dated this letter; the next item in the file is the text of the notice, in M's hand, dated 26 August, the date under which it was printed (see Notice, 26 August 1872 (in this edition as 72-08-26b)). On 27 August, the Assistant Commissioner of Crown Lands and Survey, C. Hodgkinson, recommended that ‘this notice be inserted'. The Commissioner of Crown Lands and Survey, J. Casey, initialled the notice on 29 August. The notice , which invited ‘residents in the warmer parts of the colony’ to apply to the Botanic Garden for ‘fresh seeds of the East and West Indian and African kinds of Indigo plants for test-culture’, was published in Victoria government gazette , no. 63, 13 Septe mber 1872, p. 1693 (B72.09.07).

I have the honor to be,

Sir, your obedient servant

Ferd von Mueller,

Director of the bot Garden

The honorable J. J. Casey &c &c

Minister of Lands

See also E. Agg to M, 16 September 1872 (in this edition as 72-09-16a).