A copy of a typescript by Somerville on the renaming of Maree and the mythology of the Springs. Hergott Springs referred to a group of springs discovered by David Hergott, botanical member of John McDonall Stuart's expedition in 1859. According to Reuther (?See AA 266) manuscript the native name (of the springs) is Marina or Mari, this means 'place of possums'. According to the Tirari tribe an ancestral being, Papapana, discovered the Hergott Springs and noticed many possum tracks running away from it and so it gave it that name.

People mentioned: David Herrgott, DD Herrgott, F von Mueller, David Hergolt, Stuart's expedition, BH Babbage, the Adelaide Observer, the Register Melbourne, Joseph Albert Franz David Herrgott, Melbourne General Cemetry, SA Archives, Warriner, FD Herrgott, JM Black, 'Flora of South Australia, part 1, 2nd Ed, 1943', J McDouall Stuart, 'Transactions of the Philosophical Institute of Victoria (1860)', 'Journals of J McDouall Stuart (1864)', Campbell, W Hardman, 'Explorations in Australia - Stuart', Robert Dickson, Sir Henry Barkly, Mitchell Library.

17 pages including title page and bibliography.

Places mentioned: Lake Eyre (SA), Lake Torrens (SA), Oratunga (SA), Oodnadatta (SA), Chambers Creek (NT), Finniss Springs (NT), Hergott Springs (NT), St a Beckett's Pool