THE HAMILTON ASSOCIATION. 73 



ANNUAL REPORT 



OF THE 



BIOLOGICAL SECTION 



SESSION 1889-90. 



During the past season some fifteen meetings have been held in 

 this Museum, and two — in June and July — by the kindness of Mr, 

 Alexander, at his residence, where his beautiful garden proved an 

 attractive resort on a warm summer evening, and some time was 

 agreeably occupied in inspecting the results of his experiment in 

 botany. 



Few regular papers have been read, the meetings generally being 

 of an informal but none the less enjoyable character, and many in- 

 teresting subjects were brought up, leading to general discussions, 

 whereby a good deal of valuable information regarding natural 

 history items was elucidated. Some of the earlier meetings were 

 given up to the exhibition of specimens. 



At the meeting on Nov. i, Mr. J. Alston Moffat reported for 

 the Entomological division, having added twelve new species of 

 moths to his collection, by no means a poor showing considering the 

 poverty of insect life during the summer, owing no doubt to the 

 peculiar weather experienced, an early spring followed by continued 

 rains and killing frosts as late as the beginning of June. 



At the meeting on March 7th, in the absence of Dr. Burgess, Mr. 

 Alexander presented the report of the Botanical division, showing 

 an addition of two hundred and nineteen species to the Herbarium, 

 donated by Dr. Burgess and Messrs. Alexander, Walker and Morris, 

 of this number two hundred and four were species new to the 

 collection, and no less than thirty-three new to the Hamilton Flora 

 as recorded by Logie and Buchan. A number of interesting plants 



