ABSTRACT OF PROCEEDINGS. XIX. 



V. Deviation of roads. 



VI. Falling in of banks. 



VII. Floods and weeds. 



VIII. Some miscellaneous factors in erosion : — 

 a. Boulders. 



6. Dead trees, 

 c. Stock. 



IX. Remedial and preventive measures : — 



a. Control of ringbarking. 



b. Fencing. 



c. Embankments. 



d. Chamfering of banks. 



e. Planting and conservation. 



1. Natural bank protectors. 



2. Other bank -protectors (exotic). 



3. Plants recommended for Upper, Middle, and Lower Hunter. 



4. Nurseries. 



X. Summary of the measures recommended for mitigation of floods. 

 Appendix 1. Mountain torrents in Europe. 



Appendix 2. Lessons to be learnt from some rivers in Europe. 

 Appendix 3. An instance of denudation in the United States. 



It was decided to discuss the paper at the meeting of 

 3rd September. 



EXHIBITS. 



1. Columnar Basalt in situ from Stirling, near Inverell, 

 New South Wales, columns minor diameter 9 in. to 26 in., 

 lengths not known, but apparently 10 to 20 ft. Very dense, 

 compact, stones, separated by clay joints of £ in. thickness, 

 by Mr. Herbert E. Ross. 



2. Specimens of 4 Fire Stone ' from Saunders' Quarries, 

 Pyrmont, by Mr. Henry Deane, m.a., m. inst. ce. 



The following is an abstract of the second Science Lecture 

 of the present Session, delivered on the 24th July, by Mr. 

 P. W. Woodhouse, Superintendent of Drawing, Depart- 

 ment of Public Instruction. 



The history of man's dwellings is the record of his wants 

 or absence of wants, of his ideas of comfort and decency, 

 of his social position, of his relations to his neighbours and 



