8 JOURNAL AND PROCEEDINGS 



The meeting then adjourned, to meet on the second Thursday 

 of December. 



THURSDAY, DECEMBER llth, 1§90. 



The President, Mr. Charlton, in the chair. 



The minutes of the previous meeting were read and confirmed. 



The following contributions were reported to the Museum and 

 Library, viz. : — Three fine specimens of fossil ferns from the Nova 

 Scotia Coal Measures, presented by Adam Brown, Esq., M. P. ; 

 poisonous insects and reptiles from Central America, presented by 

 W. A Robinson ; and a case of parrots from Mr. A. E. Walker ; 

 first annual report of the geological survey of Texas, with several 

 pamphlets relating to the same survey, presented by Mr. Wm. 

 Kennedy, now assistant geologist of Texas. 



The thanks of the Association were voted to the donors. 



Dr. Burgess, Superintendent of the Protestant Hospital for the 

 Insane, Montreal, was elected an honorary member of the Associa- 

 tion. 



The following were elected ordinary members of the Associa- 

 tion, viz : — 



Wm. Marshall, C. W. Mulligan, Sidney Saunders, J. A. 

 Locheed, F. H. Yapp, Robert L. Edgar, J. S. Fielding, C. S. 

 Mason, George Lynch-Staunton, F. H. Lynch-Staunton, Geo. M. 

 Leslie, Thomas Lees, Charles Moore, A. W. Stratton, B. A. ; H. P. 

 Bonny, W. H. Schofield, B. A. ; Henry S. Moore, J. F. McLaugh- 

 lin, B. A. ; D. Clarke, L. D. S. ; Walter H. Elhott, Ph. B. ; Hon. 

 Donald Mclnnes, George Roach, R. T. Lancefield, ' J. G. Cloke, 

 C. S. Finch and J. J. Morrison. 



The following names were proposed, viz. : — J. M. Burns, 

 E. L. Rastrick, J. T. Crawford, B. A. ; J. B. Turner, B. A.; Fred- 

 erick Jas. Rastrick, A. H. Hemming, Commander Cheyne, R. N. ; 

 J. G. Witton, B. A. 



Mr. Charlton then quoted several authorities to verify his state- 

 ments respecting the existence of Slavery in Canada in the early 

 part of the present century, some of these references showing that 

 there were slaves held in Ontario as late as the year 1811 at least. 



In the absence of Mr. Wilkins, of Beamsville, the Secretary 

 read a paper on the Surface Geology of the County of Lincoln and 



