192 Miscellaneoun — Deep Boring, Gotland, etc. 



raining companies when in some difficulty. This was notably the 

 case in the early seventies with the Emma Silver Mining Company, 

 Ltd., of Utah, tl.S.A., floated by Baron Grant, and sold by him for 

 £1,000,000 sterling. Mr. Attwood was asked to visit the Emma 

 Mine and report upon it. He did so, and what he had to say was 

 distinctly unfavourable. On many subsequent occasions the services 

 of this distinguished engineer were in request, and his reputation was 

 always of the very highest. The mining profession is greatly 

 benefited by the association of such reliable and honourable men as the 

 late Mr. George Attwood. — From the Mining World, February 24, 1912. 



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A Dekp Boring in Gotland. — A boring recently completed in the 

 grounds of the cement factory at Kopparsvik just south of Visby is of 

 interest, first as the deepest boring yet effected in Sweden, exceeding 

 that at Kiruna by 29 metres ; secondly, as passing from the Silurian 

 (Lower Wenlockian) through the Ordovician and possibly Cambrian to 

 the gneiss floor. Started last year by the factory to discover the 

 depth of its clay, the work was ultimately finished by the Geological 

 Survey of Sweden, which will study and publish a report on the cores. 

 The total depth of the borehole is 390 metres {circa 1,275 feet) below 

 sea-level. Clay persisted to a depth of 140 metres, and was followed 

 bv 100 metres of pure limestone ; then came 40 metres of shales, 

 and, at a depth of 280 metres, sandstone mixed with shales. The 

 gneiss was touched at 386 metres. At intervals below the depth of 

 200 metres a strong smell of petroleum was noticed. The boring was 

 carried out by the Swedish Diamond Bock-boring Co., Stockholm. 

 We may expect that, in the competent hands of our Swedish colleagues, 

 the cores will give much-needed information as to the passage beds 

 between Silurian and Ordovician in this part of the Baltic. 



Croydon Bourne. — It is not surprising after the heavy rains of the 

 past three months that the Croydon Bourne reappeared on February 7. 

 The outbreak was predicted by Mr. Baldwin Latham, M.Inst.C.E., 

 who has on fourteen previous occasions, 1877-1910, successfully 

 foretold the time when this ' Woe Water' would break out. 



BoYAL Society. — As announced by the President, Sir Archibald 

 Geikie, in his Anniversary Address delivered on November 30, the 

 Boyal Society will celebrate its 250th birthday on July 15 of this 

 year. Although the Society originated from meetings held by certain 

 Natural Philosophers about the year 1645, it was not until July 15, 

 1662, that the Charter of Incorporation passed the Great Seal and the 

 Society was fully established. Among the original Fellows whose 

 labours and writings dealt to some extent with matters geological, 

 were John Aubrey, Bobert Hooke, Sir William Petty, and Sir 

 Christopher Wren. The Society has invited the chief universities, 

 academies, scientific societies, and other institutions in this country, 

 in our Colonial Dominions and elsewhere abroad, to send delegates to 

 the meeting. It has also been arranged to issue a new edition of 

 The Record of the Royal Society. 



