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Adelaide City Archives, Adelaide. 86.07.31Preferred Citation:
Ferdinand von Mueller to Thomas Worsnop, 1886-07-31. 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/1880-9/1886/86-07-31-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026
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.
If not, — then write to him; his adress is Kew near Melbourne.
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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.
Regardfully
your
Ferd. von Mueller