ORDINARY MEETING.* 
THE REV. CANON GIRDLESTONE, IN THE CHAIR. 
The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed, and the 
following paper was read by the Rev. Dr. Walker in the absence of 
the Author :— 
PICTORIAL ART AMONG THE AUSTRALIAN 
ABORIGINES. By R. H. Matuews, Esq., L.8. 
(With two Plates.) 
INTRODUCTORY. 
. OST of the drawings of the Australian aborigines are 
very primitive in execution, and conventional in 
type, but they are nevertheless of unquestionable value to 
the student of archeology. I have made accurate copies of 
a large number of these pictorial representations, which have 
not hitherto been recorded, and propose to treat the subject 
under the following divisions, namely: Rock Paintings— 
Rock Carvings—Marked Trees— Drawings on the Ground-- 
Images—and Carvings on Wooden Implements. 
The Right Rev. Dr. Thornton, Bishop of Ballarat, Victoria, 
having favoured me witha copy of his vaiuable paper on 
“ Problems of Aboriginal Art in Australia,” read before your 
Institute on the 7th of April, 1897,f I have presumed to 
forward the following pages on the same subject, in the 
hope that they may, in some slight degree, serve to con- 
tinue the interest awakened by his Lordship’s paper. (1 
* December 4th, 1899. 
t+ Journ. Trans. Vic. Inst., vol. Xxx, pp. 205-282. 
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