12 JOURNAL AND PROCEEDINGS 



The paper was peculiarly interesting and brimful of informa- ' 

 tion. Hearty thanks were voted to Mr. Small for his paper. 

 The meeting then adjourned. 



TIIITMSDAY, 3IAT S, 1S90. 



The President in the chair. 



Minutes of the last meeting confirmed. 



It was announced that the Council had considered the question 

 of lending the Association books to the Public Free Library and 

 propose the following : 



1. That all the Government Blue Books and Reports — British, 

 Canadian, and iVmerican — -be handed over to the Public Free 

 Library Board as their absolute property. 



2. That all the books suitable for the Circulating portion of the 

 Library be handed over for use in that Department, each book to 

 have the Association label attached and to remain the property of 

 the Association. 



3. That all the valuable Reports and Transactions of Learned 

 Societies be loaned to the Trustees of the Public Library to be 

 used in the Reference Department of the same, on condition that 

 they be bound at the expense of the Board and have the Associ- 

 ation label attached. 



4. In case of the Association having at any time to leave the 

 Library building it is to be understood that the books be given up. 



A paper on the " River Valleys of the Niagara Escarpment," 

 by D. F. H. Wilkins, B. A., of Beamsville, was read by A. T. Neil, 

 Secretary of the Geological Section. The paper was well received, 

 and a desire expressed that Mr. Wilkins be requested to attend a 

 meeting of the Association next session, so that the subject of his 

 paper might be thoroughly discussed. 



The meeting then resolved itself into the Annual Meeting. 

 The President in the chair. 



The minutes of the last Annual Meeting were read and con- 

 firmed. 



■ The Secretary read his Annual Report. 



Mr. A. T. Neill read the Report of the Geological Section, 

 while that of the Biological Section was read by Mr. Hanham. 

 The Curator, Mr. Caviller, reported the additions made to the 



