Document information

Physical location:

K76/7467, unit 879, VPRS 3991/P inward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria. 76.07.00d

Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to John MacPherson, 1876-07 [76.07.00d]. 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/1870-9/1876/76-07-00d-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

1
Letter not found; item is a file from which the letter is missing. The file cover records, inter alia, registration on 17 July 1876.
[Government Botanist Part 3 of the Educational collection of plants]
2
The file contains a minute in an unknown hand: 'The [Director] suggests that the Libraries shd be asked if the sets already sent have been [turned] to useful account as a 3d set is ready which will be placed at their disposal on application and that they shd not receive this unless they ask for it'. There are also notes, 'I thought fascicles 1 & 2 had been issued' and, in the same hand but separated from this by a line, 'I have informed the Dpt but it is scarcely [...]'; the remainder of the second note is missing.
The cover sheet has further notes as follows: 'Requisition to Printer 26 - 8/76'; 'Circlat. Libs.'; '50 copies of Pt III'; 'Circ. to Libraries &c 31-8-76'; and 'Botanical Collections forwd to Institutions per Stores Dept 8-11-76'.