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 E. 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