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C73/15767, unit 746, VPRS 3991/P, inward registered correspondence VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria. 73.12.06Preferred Citation:
Ferdinand von Mueller to William Odgers, 1873-12-06. 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/1870-9/1873/73-12-06-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026
Melbourne
6/12/73.
Sir,
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of yesterday,
and beg in reply to inform you, that in accordance with the request of the hon. the
Chief Secretary I shall cause to be removed from the storehouse of the Laboratory
in the Domain all the collections and raw material, yet kept there for the continuation
of intended laboratory work; but as several cartloads of articles will have to be
removed, it will be several days before they can all be cleared out, when the keys
can be sent to the Lands-Department. As stated before, there is no space whatever
left in the only museum-room, that being now the only building left me, to locate any of
these articles, but a friend
in South Yarra has in this emergency kindly placed at my disposal the necessary space
for storage, until an other locality can be found for these Laboratory articles. The
plants for the intended education collections, seized on in the Laboratory (in the
reserve domain) while there under preparation and removed to the botanic Garden, have
not yet been restored to me.
1
W. Odgers to M, 5 December 1873.
2
Not identified.
I have the honor to be,
Sir, your most obedient servant
Ferd. von Mueller.
W. H. Odgers Esqr. &c &c &c
Undersecretary