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Professor ANDERSON StTuarT said, that upon the whole, the 
theory as described by Professor David appeared to him to best 
explain the conditions as he understood them. . He thought that 
Mr. McKinney’s remarks as to the hopes entertained by some 
that artesian water would yet convert the dry arid back country 
into verdant fields should be emphasized, for he too considered 
that the hope was vain. One had only to see what vast construc- 
tions, what great pipes were needed to irrigate what was after all 
a mere patch of the surface, to be convinced that artesian water 
would never be able to do more than make fertile oases in the 
vicinity of the bores. Further, that even depended, as had been 
said on efficient drainage being possible—and it was not always 
so. He concluded by appealing to the Under Secretary for Mines 
and Agriculture (Mr. Harrie Wood), who was present, to use his 
influence in fitting all the bores systematically with pressure 
gauges, so as to give the important information spoken of by 
Professor David. 
NOTES ON THE CREMORNE BORE. 
By T. W. E. Davin, B.A., F.G.8., Professor of Geology, Sydney 
University, and E. F. Pirrman, 4.R.s.M., Government Geologist. 
[Read before the Royal Society of N. S. Wales, December 6, 1893. | 
I. Introduction.—The problem as to the exact relation between 
the Newcastle and Illawarra Coal-fields having been at last 
practically solved by the results of the Cremorne Bores, the 
present opportunity seems to usa favourable one for bringing 
before the Society a subject of so much scientific, as well as 
economic interest. The detailed section of the strata penetrated 
at the second bore is given by one of the authors in the Annual 
Report of the Department of Mines for 1893,* now in course of 
* Annual Report, Department of Mines, 1893—Progress Report by E. 
F, Pittman, a.R.s.m., the Government Geologist. 
