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General Order by Major-General Edward Macarthur appealing to all ranks of the Australian Command to subscribe to the Nightingale Fund 'for the training, sustenance, and protection of nurses' (founded in honour of Florence Nightingale's Crimean War service); Macarthur subscribes one day's pay. Names the appointed Fund Committee: the Lord Bishop of Melbourne, Hon. Charles Sladen MLC, Mr Justice (Redmond) Barry, Colonel Anderson CB, J. P. Fawkner MLC, James McCulloch MLC, Henry Miller MLC and others.

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Victoria Government Gazette, No. 85, 15 July 1856.