288 PROCEEDINGS. 
Mr. H. C. Russert exhibited a number of photographs of the c 
River Darling taken before the rise and at its present state of 
flood. 
About thirty members were present. 
WEDNESDAY, 1 SEPTEMBER, 1886. 
C. Rotieston, C.M.G., President, in the — 
The minutes of the last meeting were read and ¢ d. 
The ua teres — were “duly elected rec members 
of the Societ 
Barker, William Mandeville, Sydney. | 
Blacket, Arthur, Sydney. ; 
Collingwood, David, M.D, (Lond.), F.R.C.S., Eng., Summer 
Hill. : 
MacDonald, John Alexander, M.I.M.E., A.M.1L.C.E., Sydney. 
Newmarch, "Bernard James, L.R.C.P. (Lond. ), iy ROSE, 
Bow 
Sager, Edmund E., Sydney. 
Worrall, or M. D. (Queen’s Univ., Irel.), Sydney. 
The certifica tes of five new candidates were read a second time, 
and of six for the first tim 
One hundred and iventy: one donations of books and periodi- 
éals were laid upon the table. 
Mr. Frepericx B. Grpps, C.E., read a paper on “Our Lakes 
and their uses,” a 
A discussion followed in which the following gentlemen took a 
part, viz.:—Messrs. H. C. Russell, J. F. Man n, T. Whitelegge, 
. 8. Wilkinson, Dr. Thomas Dixon, and the Cha irman. a 
Dr. Lerstus, M.A., F.C.S., exhibited and described some 7 
beautiful specimens o of gold in calcite, from the Uralla district, 
the lime having been dissolved in acid, the gold was left as 
network of the finest ramifying filaments. 3 
The following letter in connection with the above was ae on — 
The qua 
from Barraba and about three miles east of the main road, close to a a 
—— “aan known as ‘‘ Tea-tree Creek,” in the Peel and a Uralla mining 
ct. 
were taken from a aaa of — 45 feet. The reef is well defined an ant - 
g out stone showing gold feaiy. A battery is in course ‘of € 
read. week, Cy 
‘A, ARMSTRONG. 
To Dr. —— M.A., F,C.S., Royal Mint, Sydney. 
Re upon the specimens were made by Mr. ©, §, Wilkinson 
and Pistons Liversidge. 
About thirty members were present. 
