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Hightieth Monthly Meeting, Hall, Australian Library, 
4th July, 1866. Professor Smith in the Chair. 
Paper read.—“‘On the Ornithology of Lake George,”’ by 
Mr. Edward Ramsay, which he illustrated with numerous 
specimens of skins and eggs. 
Highty-first Monthly Meeting, Hall, Australian Library, 
ist August, 1866. Professor Smith in the Chair. 
Papers read.—1. “Preliminary remarks on the Mag- 
netical Survey of New South Wales,’’ by Mr. Smalley, 
which he illustrated with diagrams and magnetical instru- 
ments. 
2. “On the dentition of Thylacoleo carnifex,” by Mr. 
Gerard Krefit, which he illustrated with fossils and models. 
At this meeting 
*“Some conversation then followed on the subject of a 
Scientific Congress. . . . The Chairman said he had 
no doubt that at some future time there would be an 
Australian Association for the Advancement of Science, 
but he did not suppose we had the material for it yet. If 
anything was done now it would have to be done in con- 
nection with some other attraction, such as the Hxhibition, 
which would bring a large number of persons together. Dr. 
Bedford concurred with the chairman. The proposal was 
more likely to be carried into effect in Melbourne than in 
Sydney, for the Hxhibition there would collect a large 
number of persons interested in science and art, and they 
might use the intervals of leisure which they then only 
possessed in the way proposed. We were not yet ripe for 
the complete arrangements such ag were carried out in the 
British Association at home. If anything of the kind were 
attempted it would be definitely arranged beforehand, and 
that they should be of a practical character, such for 
example as the coal formations of Australia, or the extrac- 
