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and forty feet artesian water was tapped that rose twenty-six feet 
above the curb, and has been flowing without intermission ever 
since. The first essay made by the Mines Department was in 1884, 
although artesian water had been previously tapped in a bore for 
coal near Lake Macquarie. A list of the wells bored is given, and 
it is pointed out that some steps should be taken, and if need be, 
legislation obtained, to ensure that an exact record of strata 
passed through in private wells or bores should be kept, and 
become the property of the Government, because it is of great 
public importance that this work should be done in a scientific 
manner. There can be no question that a matter of such vital 
importance to our Colony as a record of experience in well-boring 
should be carefully kept, and that in time these records will enable 
those charged with the duty of well-boring to do the work more 
economically and with better chances of success than at present, 
because the experience gained from wells made will point to the 
best places and the most economical methods of making others. 
Connected with the Paleontological work of the Department 
under Mr. Robert Etheridge, Junr., are (1) A monograph of the 
Carboniferous and Permo-Carboniferous Invertebrata of New 
South Wales has been published ; (2) Contributions towards a 
catalogue of works, papers, and reports on the Anthropology, 
Ethnology, and Geological History of Australian Aborigines, 
part i., has been completed, printed and published ; (3) Part iii. 
of Vol. 11, of the Records of the Geological Survey of New 
South Wales, has been published. 
Mr. C. Moore the Government Botanist is now passing through 
the press a systematic and descriptive work of the Flora of New 
South Wales. This work has been in preparation for some years 
and is considered necessary as a corollary to the Census of the 
Plants of this Colony, published by Mr. Moore in 1884. Up to 
the present time no complete work of this. kind has existed; all 
former descriptions of our plants having been published in a 
_ fragmentary manner, or enumerated in general floras. The main 
_ object of the book is to furnish to those who may take an interest 
