Document information

Physical location:

C73/8352, unit 1022, VPRS 3991/P inward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria. 73.07.01

Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to James Francis, 1873-07-01. 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/1870-9/1873/73-07-01-final.odt>, accessed June 15, 2026

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There is an illegible annotation and further annotations: 'Dr von Mueller 7.7.73' and, by M: 'Returned to the Honorable the Chief Secretary 11/7/73'.
Melbourne, bot. Museum
1/7/73.
The honorable the Chief Secretary
Sir
I have the honor to submit for your favorable consideration a requisition for paper &c, required for the collections recently added to those of the bot. Museum, and needed to be used for the elaboration of the 7th vol. of the Work on Australian plants in English, on which I am now urgently engaged.
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Bentham (1863-78). The seventh, final, volume was much delayed.
After defraying the expenses for my assistant and the attendant of the Museum, both required for the safety of the collections and the progressive work connected therewith, means will still be available out of the £300 voted to defray requisitions of this kind. I have the honor to be, Sir, your obedient servant
Ferd. von Mueller,
M.D.