To Thomas Worsnop   31 July 1886

31/7/86.

 

In a few days, dear Sir, I shall have to write to Mr O'Donnell, concerning some plants, sent by him, when I will be happy, to bring your wishes under his notice also. I suppose, you are fully informed about what Mr E. Giles noticed of native paintings a dozen years ago, near the Macdonell-Ranges.1 If not, — then write to him; his adress is Kew near Melbourne.

Regardfully

your

Ferd. von Mueller

NT. During his first expedition, in 1872, Giles found, near a waterhole that he named Glen Edith, a large cave 'upon the walls of which the natives had painted strange devices of snakes, principally white, the children had scratched imperfect shapes of hands with bits of charcoal'; see Giles (1875), p. 38.

Please cite as “FVM-86-07-31,” in Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller, edited by R.W. Home, Thomas A. Darragh, A.M. Lucas, Sara Maroske, D.M. Sinkora, J.H. Voigt and Monika Wells accessed on 29 March 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/86-07-31