146 president's address. 



During 1894 the Department of Mines and Agriculture have 

 published Parts I. and II. of Vol. TV. of the Records of the 

 Geological Survey of New South Wales and Part III. No. 8 of 

 the Palaeontology Series of the Memoirs. The last-mentioned is 

 entitled " Contributions to a Catalogue of Works, Reports, and 

 Papers on the Anthropology, Ethnology, and Geological History 

 of the Australian and Tasmanian Aborigines," and should prove 

 of great service to workers in that branch of science. A very 

 interesting memoir by Mr. A. S. Woodward, of the British 

 Museum, on the subject of the beautifully preserved fossil fish, 

 discovered at the Talbragar River, has just been received by the 

 Government Geologist, and will shortly be published. The repu- 

 tation of the Survey is well sustained in these publications. 



Mr. R. Etheridge, junr., and Mr. W. S. Dun, assistant palaeon- 

 tologist and librarian, contribute (op. cit. Part II. pp. 68-99) 

 "The Australian Geological Record for the Year 1893, with 

 Addenda for 1891 and 1892." This is an invaluable work, and 

 no geological library in Australasia should be without it. 



Mr. W. S. Dun, who has been assisting Mr. R. Etheridge in 

 his palaeontological work for several years, was this year 

 appointed definitely to the position of assistant palaeontologist to 

 the Geological Survey. 



Mining Notes. 



I am informed that the " Sydney Harl^our Collieries Company" 

 has been successfully floated in London, and that arrangements 

 are being made to purchase Kurraba (Karubah) Point, between 

 Neutral Bay and Shell Cove, and also for the sinking at this spot 

 of a pair of shafts, which should reach the Bulli Coal Seam at 

 approximately the same depth below sea level as that at which 

 the seam was struck in the No. 2 bore at Cremorne, namely, 2774 

 feet, or probably a trifle deeper. The sinking of these shafts will 

 afford good opportunities for obtaining a series of observations on 

 underground temperature. 



The output of gold for 1894 was 324,787 ozs., valued at 

 iBl,156,717, as I am informed by the Honourable the Minister for 



