Document information

Physical location:

V93/3407, unit 731, VPRS 3992/P inward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria. 93.03.25b

Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to Thomas Wilson, 1893-03-25 [93.03.25b]. 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/1890-6/1893/93-03-25b-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

1
MS written by Georg Luehmann and signed by M. MS stamped 'C.S.O. [Chief Secretary's Office] 27 MAR 1893'. See also M to T. Wilson, 26 April 1893.
Estimates of Expenditure for 1893/4
Division No 17
Government Botanist
1892/3
1893/4
Act 160
Act 773
(Without percentage reductions)
Salaries
Subdivision No 1
Professional Division
1893/4
1892/3
1
1
1
Sc.
Government Botanist
2
This is marked with an asterisk referring to a note by Luehmann lower on the page: 'Provides office-rooms and pays for all Contingencies'. At the time of the financial crisis began in 1892 M reported, in M to A. McLean, 7 June 1892, that he had made 'arrangements to devote the difference between my S alary and the sum , which would be a pension, to the payment of all contingencies beyond the allowed £400 ' .
Maximum £750
800
800
Subdivision No 2
Clerical Division
1
1
4
Clerk
325
325
Subdivision No 3
Non-Clerical Division
1
1
1st Herbarium Assistant
3
This is marked with two asterisks referring to a note by Luehmann lower on the page: 'Awaiting transfer to an other Department'.
Maximum 252
239
4
This is marked with a cross and annotated in an unknown hand: 'Since reduced by £30 by P. S. Board [Public Service Board]'.
233
1
1
2nd Herbarium Assistant
5
This is marked with two asterisks referring to a note by Luehmann lower on the page: 'Awaiting transfer to an other Department'.
132
132
129
1
1
3rd Herbarium Assistant
6
MS annotation in an unknown hand: 'Increments in non Clerical Division amount to £15.'
96
76
70
5
5
1572
1557
Ferd. von Mueller,
Govt. Botanist
25/3/93