Document information

Physical location:

Z83/5940, unit 1409, VPRS 3991/P inward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria. 83.06.05

Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to Thomas Wilson, 1883-06-05. 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/1880-9/1883/83-06-05-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

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The file includes a note written by Luehmann and signed by M that probably constitutes the starting point of the exchange: 'Submitted for the favorable consideration of the Honorable the Chief Secretary. Melbourne, 22/5/83'. This is followed by a file note signed by Wilson, marked 'C.S.O' and dated '/6/83': 'Will the Government Botanist be good enough to inform me whether the accompanying account represents the total cost of printing the "Index of Plants indigenous to Australia" & if not what the total is.'
Memorandum in reply to the Undersecretary's minute of 4/6/83.
The printing of the "Census" of Australian plants
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B83.03.04.
cost
£
236.7/6d
Binding"
6. 5. -
Covers"
5. -. -
Total
247.12/6
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MS annotation in a clerk's hand: 'Will the Government Botanist be good enough to inform me whether the sum of £247.12s.6d represents the whole expenditure for printing, binding &c, including the 2nd part. C.S.O. /6/83'. Before signing this, Wilson added 'or if not what the total cost is likely to be?'.
To this M replied with a minute on 14 June 1883: 'The sum of £247.12/6d represents the total expenditure of part I of the Census, as issued already. The second part will not be quite so large, nor will it appear during the next finance-year, and should it never be printed, the first one will remain complete in itself'. Part 2 was never printed although an extensive manuscript remains in the Library at MEL (RB MSS 772).
The present account of £35.6/6d closes the expenditure of part I. of the "Census"; the second part cannot appear before 1884.
Ferd. von Mueller
5/6/83.