840 PROCEEDINGS OF SECTION F. 
No. 22.—NOTES ON THE ROCK CARVINGS OF AUS- 
TRALIAN ABORIGINES IN THE WOLLOMBI DIS- 
TRICT, N.S. WALES. 
By W. J. Enricur. 
(Read Wednesday, January 12, 1898.) 
No. 23. — VOCABULARIES OF THE GEELONG AND 
COLAC TRIBES, COLLECTED IN 1840. 
By Joun J. Cary. 
(Read Wednesday, January 12, 1898.) 
Tue slight knowledge of the Australian language given to the 
world has been mainly the work of Christian propagandists. 
With his grammar of the Lake Macquarie dialect, published at 
Sydney in 1827, L. E. Threlkeld may be said to have led the way. 
Others, like Gunther, Teichelmann-Shurmann, Taplin, and Ridley, 
have followed with copious vocabulary, phrase-book, or grammar; 
while to-day the material for similar contributions to linguistic 
science is no doubt still being gathered by zealous missionaries— 
for example, the Jesuits in the Northern Territory, or the Bene- 
dictines of New Norcia, near the capital of the Golden West ; 
and from the manuscript of an early missionary is drawn the 
interesting peculiarity now under notice. 
In 1838 the Wesleyan Methodists commenced an aboriginal 
mission at Port Phillip; they established the Buntingdale Station 
at the source of the Barwon, and tried, unsuccessfully, to reclaim 
the Wod-dow-ro, Dantgurt, and Kolijon tribes. One of the mis- 
sionaries first sent from England to carry on the work was Francis 
Tuckfield, a young Cornishman, brave and hopeful, who entered 
on his new life with the zeal of an enthusiast. Naturally, chilling 
experience somewhat lessened this ardour; but when State aid 
