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shaft was sunk 140 feet from the edge of river water, with the 

 object of procuring a supply of water for the use of the Eail way- 

 Engines ; at the depth of 140 feet a bed of rock was reached 

 without finding the supply of water desired. It was then decided 

 to run a shaft along the surface of this bed towards the river ; 

 this shaft which was 8 feet below the present surface of the water 

 in the river, was carried 94 feet towards the river when a large 

 log of wood was met with, so large that it had to be cut across ; 

 the specimen exhibited is a section of this log. The shaft 

 has since been carried on towards the river within about 1 feet 

 of the water (I 3th March.) The drive is six feet long and four 

 wide, the roof and sides of the drive are composed of cemented 

 boulders. The trunk of this tree was about four feet in diameter. 



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WEDNESDAY, 26tii APEIL, 1882. 



The President J. C. Oox, M.D., F.L.S., &c., in the Chair. 



MEMBER ELECTED. 



Dr. "William Williams, Darlinghurst Poad. 



DONATIONS. 



Southern Science Eecord, Vol. II., No. 3, March 1882. 



Erom Baron Eerd. von. Miieller, K.C.M.Gr., Eucalyptographia, 

 8th Decade. 



Erom the Microscopical Society of Yictoria — Journal, Vol. I., 

 No. 4, Yol. II., No. I. 



Erom H. C. Eussell, E.E.A.S., Eesults of Pain and Eiver 

 observations in New South Wales during 1881. 



Erom the Australian Museum, Sydney — Catalogue of the 

 Australian Stalk- and Sessile-eyed Crustacea, by William A. 

 Haswell, M.A., B.Sc. 

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