88 RESEARCH COMMITTEES. 
Amberley, Canterbury.—A. W. Bickerton. New Zealand Offcial 
Year Book, 1896, p. 434. 
Chalybeate water.—Total solids, 37°6 grs. per gal. ; volatile, 
8:8 ; chlorine, 10°5 ; carbonate of lime, 3°6 ; carbonate of magnesia, 
2-2; iron protoxide, 2°3; soda, &c., 10-2. Contains a high pro- 
portion of organic matter. 
Auckland.—W. Skey. XVth Colonial Museum and Laboratory 
Report, 1879-80, p. 43. 
Alkaline water.—Total solids, 116-78 grs. per gal.; sodic bi-car- 
bonate, 42°89 ; calcic bi-carbonate, 14:25 ; magnesia bi-carbonate, 
45-15; sodic chloride, 3:81 ; aluminia oxide, ‘30 ; sedic sulphate, 
04 ; silica, 10°31. 
Bay of Islands, Auckland.—W. Skey. Transactions, New Zea- 
land Institute, vol. X, 1877, p. £24. 
Acid, sulphuretted, and chalybeate, water.—Total solids, 134°6 
grs. per gal. ; fixed alkalies, 41°66 ; protoxide of iron, 2:23; lime, 
5:97 ; magnesia, 1:15; silica, 3:10; sulphuric acid, 13°60; hydro- 
chloric acid, 66°91. This water has a slight acid reaction and 
strong odour of sulphuretted hydrogen ; forms a deposit of sulphur 
and sulphates. 
Blind Bay Estate, Lake Grassmere.—W.Skey. XXIXth Colonial 
Museum and Laboratory Report, p. 20. 
Total solids, 5:82 grs. per gal, consisting of sodic chloride, calcic 
chloride, and sodic sulphate; contains also minute traces of 
iodine combined with magnesia. 
Cannibal Gorge, Reefton.—W. Skey. XXth Colonial Museum 
and Laboratory Report, p. 52. 
Sulphurettedand chalybeate water.—Total solids, 36°66. ; sodium 
chloride, 18-02; calcium sulphate, 5-44 ; sodium sulphate, 2°20 ; 
calcium sulphide, 2°81; magnesia sulphide, 1:26; carbonate of 
iron, ‘91; silica, 6:02; sulphuretted hydrogen is present to the 
extent of 6°91 grs. per gal. 
Dungree.—W. Skey. XVIth Colonial Museum and Laboratory 
Report, 1880-1, p. 47. 
A chlorinated saline water, said to be avoided by cattle and 
sheep.—Total solids 94:6 grs. per gal., mainly sodium chloride, 
with chlorides and sulphates of the alkaline earths, a small 
quantity of earthy carbonates, and a trace of magnesia iodide. 
Reaction distinctly alkaline. 
