Ferdinand von Mueller

Melbourne

15 Aug. 1884.

The honorable the Chief Secretary.

Sir.

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your communication of the 13. Aug,

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No 2807, accompanied by Circulars, and shall not fail to act in accordance with the instructions conveyed; but I would beg leave to point out, that the provision made for return-sendings obtained for literary exchanges made from here, becoming directly available to Departments requiring such, applies particularly to a professional Department like mine, where the return-sending need frequent and immediate access in the course of connected studies in progressive science.

As however the return sendings may in some instances be of interest to the public library as well, I would beg to suggest, that the trustees of that institution might ask for a duplicate return-sending, one copy for the public Library, the other for the Gov. Botanists-office, whenever publications are sent out as issued from my Department. I may add, that the Gov. Printer, according to a standing order, supplied the trustees with 25 copies of any publications of my office, issued by the Governments press.

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Additional comments and arguments were made in M to T. Wilson, 6 September 1884.