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Forty-second Monthly Meeting, Hall, Australian Library, 
19th June, 1861. William Bland Esq. in the Chair. 
Members elected.—Messrs. A. Tornaghi and George 
| Rowley. 
Paper read.—“‘On the Census of 1861‘? by Christopher 
Rolleston Esq. 
Forty-third Monthly Meeting, Hall, Australian Library, 
17th July, 1861. Sir John Young in the Chair. 
Meetings altered from third to second Wednesday of 
each month. 
Mr. A. Shadler caused the attention of the Society to be 
drawn to his invention of an oven thermometer. 
Paper read.—‘‘On the Sydney Observatory and Tebbutt’s 
Comet,’’ by Rev. William Scott. 
Forty-fourth Monthly Meeting, Hall, Australian Library, 
14th August, 1861. Sir John Young in the Chair. 
Member elected.—Mr. John Tebbutt. 
Alfred Roberts Hsq. read a description of a new species 
of Foraminiferous Shell from Ovalau, Feegee. 
Paper read.—‘‘On the improvements in the navigation 
of the River Hunter,’’ by Edward Moriarty Esq. 
Forty-fifth Monthly Meeting, Hall, Australian Library, 
11th September, 1861. Sir John Young in the Chair. 
Charles Moore Hsq. read his paper entitled ‘“‘A brief 
notice of a few of the prevailing but little known scrub 
timbers of the Colony.”’ 
Papers read.—1. ‘‘On a new mode of constructing timber 
bridges.”’ 2. ‘“‘On a new method of giving support to rail- 
way bars.’’ (Both by Thomas Woore.) 
S—July 3, 1918. 
