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the site just alluded to. When 310 feet had been pierced, 

 the water gushed out, and continued to issue abundantly, sup- 

 plying a farm-steading for about a year. But at that time 

 the pumping-engine of a pit, about a mile off, began to play, 

 and thoroughly drained off the spring. Facts such as I have 

 recorded possess a meteorological and petralogical interest, 

 besides their direct economic one. Might not a committee of 

 this Society draw up a series of directions for their observa- 

 tion and registration, and circulate them amongst borers and 

 others? Much useful economic knowledge might thus be 

 rescued from oblivion. Artesian water supply for domestic - 

 use, manufacturing purposes, and irrigation, has been too much 

 neglected in this country. Whilst, then, the geologists of the 

 south are directing public attention to this subject, the in- 

 stances just noted show that, even in some parts of our north- 

 ern secondary strata, the requisite conditions exist for the 

 successful search of these springs. It may be remembered 

 that several of them have been successfully bored for in the 

 Mountain Limestone district of Derbyshire. 



Wednesday, 27th January 1858. — Andrew Murray, Esq., President, 

 in the Chair. 



The Donations to the Library, which included the following works, 

 were laid on the Table, and thanks were voted to the donors : — 



1. Proceedings of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool, 

 No. XI., 1856-57. — From the Society. 2. Transactions of the Royal So- 

 ciety of Edinburgh, Vol. XXL, Part IV. 3. Proceedings of ditto, Session 

 1856-57. — From the Royal Society. 4. Remarks on the Mechanical 

 Structure of Cotton Fibre. By Gilbert S. French, Bolton. — From George 

 Lawson, Ph. T>. 



The following communications were read : — 



I. On the Occurence in Scotland of the Achatina acicula. By 

 W. H. Lowe, M.D. 



Dr W. H. Lowe read the following note he had just re- 

 ceived from Patrick Dalmahoy, Esq., W.S., giving instances 

 of the occurrence of the Achatina acicula, in addition to 

 the one he had himself observed and recorded at a pre- 

 vious meeting;* thus establishing beyond a doubt the pro- 



* See page 346. 



