Document information

Physical location:

D73/10017, unit 669, VPRS 3991/P inward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria. 73.08.04

Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to James Francis, 1873. 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/1870-9/1873/73-00-00b-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

Melbourne,
bot Garden Museum
4/8/73.
Sir
I have the honor to solicit, that you will be pleased to place under authority of expenditure such portion of the votes sanctioned for my Department, as you may deem desirable, in order that I may from month to month pass the accounts for salaries of myself, my assistant and museum & office attendent, also the amounts incurred for incidental expenses, stores or other official liabilities.
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The authorities were provided in W. Odgers to M, 5 August 1873 (in this edition as 73-08-05a).
I have the honor to be,
Sir, your obedient servant
Ferd. von Mueller.
The honorable the Chief Secretary.