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PRESIDENT S ADDRESS. 
During 1894 the Department of Mines and Agriculture have 
published Parts I. and II. of Vol. IV. of the Records of the 
Geological Survey of New South Wales and Part III. No. 8 of 
the Palaeontology Series of the Memoirs. The last-mentioned is 
entitled " Contributions to a Catalogue of Works, Reports, and 
Papers on the Anthropology, Ethnology, and Geological History 
of the Australian and Tasmanian Aborigines," and should prove 
of great service to workers in that branch of science. A very 
interesting memoir by Mr. A. S. Woodward, of the British 
Museum, on the subject of the beautifully preserved fossil fish, 
discovered at the Talbragar River, has just been received by the 
Government Geologist, and will shortly be published. The repu- 
tation of the Survey is well sustained in these publications. 
Mr. R. Etheridge, junr., and Mr. W. S. Dun, assistant palaeon- 
tologist and librarian, contribute (op. cit. Part II. pp. 68-99) 
"The Australian Geological Record for the Year 1893, with 
Addenda for 1891 and 1892." This is an invaluable work, and 
no geological library in Australasia should be without it. 
Mr. W. S. Dun, who has been assisting Mr. R. Etheridge in 
his palaeontological work for several years, was this year 
appointed definitely to the position of assistant palaeontologist to 
the Geological Survey. 
Mining Notes. 
I am informed that the " Sydney Harbour Collieries Company" 
has been successfully floated in London, and that arrangements 
are being made to purchase Kurraba (Karubah) Point, between 
Neutral Bay and Shell Cove, and also for the sinking at this spot 
of a pair of shafts, which should reach the Bulli Coal Seam at 
approximately the same depth below sea level as that at which 
the seam was struck in the No. 2 bore at Cremorne, namely, 2774 
feet, or probably a trifle deeper. The sinking of these shafts will 
afford good opportunities for obtaining a series of observations on 
underground temperature. 
The output of gold for 1894 was 324,787 ozs., valued at 
£1, 156, 717, as I am informed by the Honourable the Minister for 
