Document information

Physical location:

N89/1585, unit 407, VPRS 3992/P inward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria. 89.02.07

Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to Thomas Wilson, 1889-02-07. 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/1880-9/1889/89-02-07-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

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MS is a file note. On 1 February 1889 David Scott, Mayor of Launceston, Tas., wrote to the Chief Secretary, Melbourne, asking for a 'list of the Botanical Specimens in the Botanical Gardens Melbourne' for the use of Launceston's gardener. The Under Secretary, T. Wilson, referred the letter to M 'for report. I am not very clear as to what it is the writer is asking for.' Scott's request was also referred to W. Guilfoyle, Curator, Botanic Gardens Melbourne (N89/2159, unit 407, VPRS 3992/P, Public Record Office, Victoria). The present note is M's reply to Wilson.
The utilitarian plants " suitable for these colonies " are mentioned in the bye-following volume,
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Presumably the most recent edition of M's Select plants (B88.12.01).
which probably will afford to his Worship the Mayor of Launceston all the information desired there.
Ferd. von Mueller.
7/2/89.