JOURNAL AND PROCEEDINGS. I21 
OBITUARY. 
Since its last preceding annual meeting, the Hamilton 
Association has had taken away by death, two estimable 
members, Mr. B. E. CHarLTon, and J. D. MACDONALD, M. D. 
Appropriate resolutions deploring the loss to the Society by 
their taking off, were recorded in the minutes of a meeting 
held soon after their decease. 
Mr. Charlton* and Dr. Macdonald} were for many years 
members of the Hamilton Association. Both took an active 
part in the Council which directs its procedure ; and each 
worthily discharged, for more than one elective term of office, 
the duties of President of the Association. At meetings of 
the Society, few faces were more familiar than theirs ; for 
both were exact, almost to punctiliousness, 1n their observance 
of duty. 
A generation ago, Mr. Charlton’s exploration of tumuli 
near Hamilton, made his name familiar to Indian archzeolo- 
gists : and Dr. Macdonald’s presidential addresses were models 
of precise impartial speech, helpful to all who heard them. 
Both were most companionable men. Each could profit from 
intellectual fellowship with others; and give ungrudgingly in 
turn to the Association, of his own stores, leisure, intellect 
and heart ; thereby rightfully winning a place on its bead-roll 
of honour. 
*Born, 1835. Died, 1got. +Born, 1819. Died, 1got. 
