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Physical location:

L73/4327, unit 750, VPRS 44/P inward registered and unregistered correspondence, VA 538 Department of Crown Lands and Survey, Public Record Office, Victoria. 73.03.10

Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to James Casey, 1873-03-10. 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/1870-9/1873/73-03-10-final.odt>, accessed June 15, 2026

Melbourne bot. Garden,
10/3/73.
Sir
I have the honor to submit the byefollowing application from Sir Geo. Verdon, K.C.M.G.,
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G. Verdon to M, 4 March 1873.
for a collection of Australian seeds, to be supplied to the Captain of the "Pisani".
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Count Giuseppe Lovera di Maria, commander of the Italian navy corvette Vettor Pisani, which had been visiting Sydney.
Should it meet with your approval that such are supplied, then I will not fail to provide in your name as good a collection as the reduced circumstances here now permit, altho it cannot be extensive, as this season no longer a man could be exclusively employed in the seeds Department, and as the present means of my establishment allow no longer of a collector being kept in the field as in former years, to provide means for interchanges &c
I have the honor to be, Sir,
your obedient servant
Ferd. von Mueller,
Direct. botan. Garden
The honorable the Minister of the Lands Department
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On 12 March 1873 the Secretary of Agriculture, A. Wallis, minuted: 'I presume there can be no objection to these seeds being supplied'. Casey initialled his approval the next day.