384 KEPORT — 1887. 



Appendix by W. Whitaeer, B.A„ F.R.S., F.G.S., Assoc. Inst. C.E. 



Chronological List of Works referring to Underground Water, England and 



Wales. 



My first attempt at a subject-list of geological works, for England 

 and Wales, was that on ' Coast-Changes and Shore-Deposits,' in the 

 ' Report of the Committee for inquiring into the Rate of Erosion of Sea- 

 Coasts, &c.,' printed in the British Association's volume for 1885. A 

 second attempt is now made for the Underground Water Committee. 



In the following list, besides such papers as deal specially with the 

 subject, there are noted those that give sections of wells or borings for 

 water, or analyses of well-waters, and that refer to springs (the outflow 

 of underground water) ; but the many works dealing purely with 

 mineral waters (from the medical point of view) are not noted, that subject 

 having a large literature of its own, deserving of separate treatment. 

 The Reports of this Committee have also been omitted. 



Although the entries number 556, yet the writer is well aware that 

 there are probably many omissions, and he would be obliged by the noti- 

 fication of any. A number of titles have been kept back as uncertain. 



1656-91. 



Aubrey, J. The Natural History of Wiltshire. (Edited by J. Bkitton, 

 4to. Lond. 1847.) Refers to Springs. 



1664. 



Lawrence, T. Mercurius Centralis ; or, a Discourse of Subterranean 

 Cockle, Muscle, and Oyster-shels found in the digging a well at Sir 

 William Doylie's, in Norfolk. 12mo. Lond. Another ed. in 1688. 



1G69. 



Jackson, Dr. W. Some Enquiries concerning the Salt-Springs and 

 the Way of Salt-making at Nantwich in Cheshire. Answered. Phil, 

 Trans, vol. iv. no. 3, p. 1060. 



1679. 



Rastell, Dr. T. An Account of the Salt Waters of Droytwich in 

 Worcestershire. Phil. Trans, vol. xii. no. 142, p. 1059. 



1684. 



Lister, Dr. M. Certain Observations of the Midland Salt- Springs of 

 Worcester-shire, Stafford-shire, and Cheshire. Phil. Trans, vol. xiv. no. 

 156, p. 489. 



1728. 



Lewis, Rev. J. An Account of the several Strata of Earths and 

 Fossils found in sinking the mineral Wells at Holt. Phil. Trans, vol. 

 XXXV. no. 403, p. 489. 



1780? 



Collinson, P. (communicated by). A Letter from the King's Officers 

 . . . giving an Account of what they met with in opening an antient 

 Well near Queenborough in Kent. Phil. Trans, vol. xxxvi. p. 191. 



