Yol. 50. J PROCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 5 



1. 'On the Stratigraphical, Lithological, and Palseontological 

 Features of the Gosau Beds of the Gosau District, in the Austrian 

 Salzkammergut.' By Herbert Kynaston, Esq., B.A. (Communicated 

 by J. E. Marr, Esq., M.A., F.E.S., Sec.G.S.) 



2. ' Artesian Boring at New Lodge, near Windsor Forest, Berks.' 

 By Prof. Edward Hull, M.A., LL.D., E.K.S., F.G.S. 



3. 'Boring on the Booysen Estate, Witwatersrand.' By D. 

 Telford Edwards, Esq. (Communicated by the President.) 



[Abstract.] 



The borehole is situated about 2 miles from Johannesburg, and 

 about 5000 feet due south of the Wemmer Gold Mining Company's 

 main hauling shaft. It was carried to a depth of 1020 feet. The 

 measures passed through were sandstones and quartzites, with banks 

 of conglomerates, the so-called ' reefs.' A group of these conglo- 

 merates, known as the Bird Beef series, was cut between the depths 

 of 470 and 970 feet ; it contained eighteen beds of conglomerate, 

 two of which, at the respective depths of 536 and 636 feet, were 

 22 and 26 feet in thickness, and yielded no trace of gold. The 

 remainder varied from 2 feet to 5 inches in thickness ; in eight of 

 them traces of gold were detected, and all were mineralized with 

 iron pyrites. The dip varied from 32° to 35° down to a depth of 

 835 feet ; here it seemed to decrease for a while to 20°, but lower 

 down it increased to 32° and 33°. 



[The lower part of the boring passed through country rock 

 (quartzite).— Eeb. 5th, 1894.] 



The following specimens were exhibited : — 



Specimens of rocks from a deep boring and other workings in the 

 neighbourhood of Johannesburg, South African Republic, collected 

 by H. C. Simpson, Esq. Exhibited by W. J. Lewis Abbott, Esq., 

 E.G.S. 



January 10th, 1894. 

 W. H. Htjdleston, Esq., M.A., E.B.S., President, in the Chair. 



Walter Cleeve Edwards, Esq., Assoc.M.Inst.C.E., Midland Bail- 

 way, Greymouth, New Zealand ; Thomas Walker Eowler, Esq., 

 Assoc.M.Inst.C.E., Modern Chambers, 317 Collins Street, Mel- 

 bourne, Victoria : Edmund William Janson, Esq., B.A., Trelo- 

 warren Street, Camborne ; and Thomas Escolme Storey, Esq., 

 Weston Coyney Hall, Longton, Staffordshire, were elected Fellows 

 of the Society. 



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