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E72/21066, unit 750, VPRS 44/P inward registered and unregistered correspondence, VA 538 Department of Crown Lands and Survey, Public Record Office, Victoria. 72.09.28Preferred Citation:
Ferdinand von Mueller to James Casey, 1872-09-28. 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/1870-9/1872/72-09-28-final.odt>, accessed June 9, 2026
Melbourne bot. Garden
28 Sept. 1872.
Sir
I have the honor to seek your permission for the appearance of the byefollowing anouncement
in the Gov Gazette.
I have the honor to be, Sir, your obedient servant
Ferd. von Mueller,
Direct. bot. Garden.
The honorable the Minister of the Lands Department
Fresh Cotton seeds can be obtained for test culture at the office of the Under-signed
1
The notice appeared in the Gazette, 18 October 1872, p. 1914, amended so that it appeared over the name of 'J. J Casey,
Minister of Lands and Agriculture', directing application to the 'office of the Government
Botanist and Director of the Botanic Gardens'.
Ferd. von Mueller, M.D.,
and Direct. botan. Garden
2
Casey initialled M's notice on 2 October 1872 with 'the Under-signed' and 'Ferd. von
Mueller, M.D.,' crossed through, and 'Govt Botanist and' inserted instead. M sent
it to the Government Printer. On 18 October, J. Lascelles of the Gazette Branch in
the Chief Secretary's Department, noted: 'The proper course to pursue for the purpose
of processing the insertion in the Government Gazette of any Notice which the Director
of the Botanic Gardens desires to be published in the Gazette is to transmit such
notice to the Political Head of the Department of which the Directory of the Botanic
Gardens is a Branch, accompanied by a letter requesting that such Notice may be Gazetted.
The Political Head, if he approves of the notice, will then cause it to be forwarded
by one of his own officers
to the Chief Secretary's Department in which is vested the exclusive control of the
Gazette. The annexed Correspondence belongs to and should be restored to the Department
of Agriculture (Lands & Survey Office)'. M responded on 19 October: 'In accordance
with the attached memorandum this correspondence is now returned to the Lands Office.
Since the last 16 years my notices for the Gazette went always directly, after approval
of the hon the Minister, to the Gov. Printing Office, and I was not aware that this
course was contrary to any existing regulations.'