TABLE OF CONTENTS HI 



SECTION II 



Presidential Address — Satire and Humour. By Maurice 



HUTTON 1 



The Revolt against Reason; a Contribution to the History of 



Thought. By G. S. Brett 9 



Lord Lovel and Lady Nancy; a Traditional Ballad. By W, J. 



WiNTEMBERG 19 



The Overland Journey of the Argonauts of 1862. By Judge F. 



W. How AY 37 



A Contemporary Account of the Navy Island Episode. By 



Honourable William Renwick Riddell 57 



Some Notes on the Minutes of the Town Meetings of the Township 



of Sidney. By W. S. Herrington 77 



A Radical and a Loyalist; a Biographical Sketch of Elias Hardy, 

 Barrister-at-Law at Saint John, 1784-1799. By Ven. 

 Archdeacon W. O, Raymond 91 



The Significance for Canadian History of the Work of the Board 



of Historical Publications. By Adam Shortt 103 



David Ramsay and Long Point in Legend and History. By 



James H. Coyne Ill 



SECTION III 



Presidential Address. — The Development of Modern Acoustics. 



By Louis V. King 1 



On the Absorption Spectra of Thallium, Aluminium, Lead and 

 Tin, and Arsenic. By J. C. McLennan, J. F. T. Young 

 and H. J. C. Ireton 7 



On the Optical Transparency of Certain Specim.ens of Fluorite. 



By J. F. T. Young and H. J. C. Ireton 15 



The Use of Jamin Interferometer for the Estimation of Small 

 Amounts of Helium or Hydrogen in Air. By J. C. 

 IvIcLennan and R. T. Elworthy 19 



The Estimation of the Helium Content of Mixtures of Gases by 



the Use of the Katharometer . By V. F. Murray 27 



