296 J. H. MAIDEN. 
Sixtieth Monthly Meeting, Hall, Australian Library, 
12th August, 1863. Sir John Young in the Chair. 
Paper read.—"* The correct scientific method of forming 
Railway Ourves and Railways, with an exposition of the 
injurious effects of the system adopted in this Colony,”’ by 
Mr. Martin Gardiner. The second part was postponed for 
a subsequent meeting. 
Sixty-first Monthly Meeting, Hall, Australian Library, 
17th September, 1863. H.C. Burnell Esq. in the Chair. 
Paper read.—‘“‘On the Vertebrated Animals of the Lower 
Murray, their habits, economy, and geographical distribu- 
tion,’’ by Gerard Krefft, which he illustrated by live and 
preserved Specimens and numerous drawings. 
(Continuation of the paper referred to at p. 293.) 
Sixty-second Monthly Meeting, October, 1863. No record 
of proceedings. 
Sixty-third Monthly Meeting, Hall, Australian Library, 
11th November, 1863. Sir John Young in the Chair. 
Mr. Justice Wise suggested to the Council that the 
Department of Public Works be written to requesting that 
in excavations for railway and other works, fossils and 
other objects of interest be preserved. 
Mr. G. Krefit then read a description of a new fish from 
the Hawkesbury River belonging to the genus Therapon, 
and exhibited a specimen of the same. 
Sixty-fourth Monthly Meeting, Hall, Australian Library, 
16th December, 1863. Sir John Young in the Chair. 
A Conversazione was held and a list of the exhibits was 
published in the ‘“‘Herald”’ of the following day. 
Siaty-fifth Monthly Meeting, Chamber of Commerce, 
6th July, 1864. Alfred Roberts Hsq., in the Chair. 
