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B84/10559, unit 70, VPRS 3992/P inward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria. 84.11.17a

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Ferdinand von Mueller to Thomas Wilson, 1884-11-17 [84.11.17a]. 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/1880-9/1884/84-11-17a-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

Melbourne,
17/11/84.
T.R. Wilson Esqr,
Undersecretary.
Sir.
In reference to your letter of the 14 Nov. N. 4845 and circular N. 936
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Letter and circular not found.
I have the honor to inform you, that all employées, returned in my list for the Public Service Board as belonging to the Gov. Botanists Department,
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List not found.
must be regarded as fully and regularly employed, and have therefore every claim for being registered as in the departmental service. It is however right for me to remark, that Assistant G. Renner, Assistant J. Minchin and Junior Assistant Ch. French (jun.)
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Charles H. French.
were not appointed by his Excellency the Governor in Council, and that they were hitherto paid out of the contingency-vote.
I have the honor to be,
Sir, your obedient servant
Ferd. von Mueller.