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referred to local directories, though reference should be made to Dicker’s 
Directory of the Mines and Securities of Victoria , Prior’s Hand-hook of 
Australian Mines* * * § Pulleine’s The Australasian Mining Directory ,t The 
Mining Manual of Australasia , t and The Mineral Industry , edited by 
Roth well. § 
I regret not to have been able to give fuller references to the reports of 
mining companies. Their reports and prospectuses contain a great deal of 
detailed and accurate information; but the libraries have not hitherto col¬ 
lected these papers. The result is that most of this valuable information 
is, I am afraid, permanently lost. 
The numerous pamphlets on Victorian mining, also, have not been ade¬ 
quately collected. The series in the Public Library, and in the collection 
made by the late P. MacArthur, of Maldon, now in the University 
Library, probablv contain the most important. 
I have to thank the officers of the Melbourne Public Library for their 
ever courteous assistance during mv frequent reference to the fine library 
under their care; also to Messrs. D. McNab, E. B. Dow, and E. Selk, for 
help in collecting references ; to Mr. H. Herman, of Mount Bischoff, for 
help in preparing the manuscript for press, to Mr. A. E. Kitson, of the 
Mines Department, for the tabulation of the ever-changing title of Dicker’s 
Mining Record on page 5; and for most of the work of passing it 
through the press; to Mr. Prichard, of the Australian Mining Standard , for 
help in reference to the puzzling enumeration of the volumes of that valu¬ 
able journal. 
The title “ Bore Records,” under which reference is given to reports of 
the boring operations made by the Mines Department, is adopted for con¬ 
venience. They have appeared under so many styles, that reference to 
them is difficult. The various reports are enumerated on page 11, where 
are given the numbers allotted to them. 
This bibliography is incomplete, and is sure to contain many inaccu¬ 
racies. But I hope that it will lengthen the working lives of our geologists, 
■and help to preserve the memory of our predecessors, by rendering their 
work more accessible and more useful. 
II.—VICTORIAN MINING SERIALS. 
Australasian Institute of Mining Engineers. Transaction of the— 
Vol. I., Sydney, 1894, 146 pp., 1 PI. 
,, II., Adelaide, 1894, 140 pp., 6 PI. 
,, III., Adelaide, 1895, 301 pp., 7 PL 
,, IV., Melbourne, 1897, 214 pp., 31 PI. 
,, V., Melbourne, 1898, 286 pp., 10 PI. 
,, VI., Melbourne, 1900, 247 pp., 3 PI. 
,, VII., Melbourne, 1901, 214 pp., 15 PI. 
,, VIII., Melbourne. 1902', 290 pp., 19 PI. (Pt. I. is dated 
1901 on title page.) 
,, IX., Melbourne, 1903, 286 pp., 23 PL 
Australian Gold Diggers Monthly Magazine and Colonial Family 
Visitor. Edited by Jas. Bonwick. Vol. I., Nos. 1-8, 1852, May, 1853. 
Australian Mining Standard .— 
Vol. I., Nos.' 1-52, 31 Oct., 1888, to 23 Oct., 1889, Sydney, 1889. 
* Edited for the Austral. Min. Stand., Sydney, 1S90, 236 pp., Victoria, pp. 61-124. 
t Adelaide, 1888, 8vo, pp. 400. 
t Austral. Min. Stand., pp. 1000. 
§ 12 vols. 1892-193, 8vo, New York. 
