12 THE HAMILTON ASSOCIATION. 
REPORT OF ASTRONOMICAL SECTION. 
We report a very satisfactory session. 
Meetings at which papers have been read, fourteen. These, 
with two exceptions, were by our own members, which we consider 
a matter of congratulation, evidencing the real educational results 
from the work of the Scientific Association. Our audiences have 
been very large, in many instances filling the Museum to over- 
flowing. 
We are confident that the cases which the Association have 
purchased will result in making the room which has been so much 
needed 
We report a membership of 53. 
Aberdeen observatory, through the courtesy of Dr. Marsh, has 
been visited by over a hundred visitors through the medium of the 
Astronomical Section, and in accord with the verdict of the many 
hundreds who have otherwise visited the observatory, have expressed 
themselves as favored indeed by the value of the knowledge given 
and the courtesy accorded to everyone by Dr. Marsh. It is worthy 
of comment the far-reaching influence that has resulted from Dr. 
Marsh coming amongst us, and the expansion of knowledge, Astro- 
nomical and otherwise, that has resulted, will not be easily measured, 
but is to be found in every quarter of our intellectual field. 
We have been again much indebted to our Toronto confreres ; 
they have, ever since our inception as a society, been ready and 
prompt to assist us by their excellent papers, loan of apparatus, and 
in very many ways exemplified the attitude of generous courtesy, 
which is the characteristic of the highly intellectual. 
We mean no discrimination when we mention the liberal use 
we have had of the tube of Radium from Mr. J. R. Collins, and 
by which one of the first, if not the first radiograph lantern slide, 
was made in Canada, and shown, together with the tube so kindly 
loaned for the occasion, to the largest audience of our season, a 
