Document information

Physical location:

RB MSS M1, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. 90.04.16

Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to James Killen, 1890-04-16. 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/1890-6/1890/90-04-16-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

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MS is a fragment found with a specimen of Stylidium piliferum (MEL 1061767). The letter may never have been sent.
Botanic Museum
South Yarra
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Melbourne.
16/4/90
Dear Mr Killen
As the promotions in the Govt. Botanists office took place in the middle of the current year I find it difficult to follow exactly your form of statement and at the same […]
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An unknown amount of text missing. The promotions during the financial year were of James Minchin (see M to T. Wilson, 1 October 1889 (in this edition as 89-10-10b)) and Charles H. French (see M to A. Deakin, 29 January 1890). Killen, Accountant in the finance section of the Chief Secretary's Office, had probably queried the salaries for these officers shown on the Estimates that M submitted in M to T. Wilson, 10 April 1890; see M to T. Wilson, 16 June 1890.