HAMILTON ASSOCIATION. 



1885. 



OF THE PRESIDENT REV. C. H. MOCKRIDGE, D.D. 



INTRODUCTORY. 



At this our opening meeting of the present season, I desire 

 to tender to the members of the Hamilton Association my sincere 

 thanks for the distinguished honor they have done me in elect- 

 ing me as their President. I fear I can lay no claim to such a 

 position, except on the grounds, that I have always felt deeply 

 interested in anything which has a tendency to improve and 

 therefore refine the^ntellect of mankind ; but as far as I may be 

 able to do so, I will endeavour to promote the interests of the 

 Association, and fill as worthily as possible the high position in 

 which its members have placed me. 



Some changes have taken place in the active membership of 

 our Association, the chief being the removal by death of Mr. David 

 McCulloch, late collector of customs, and the removal from the 

 City, (owing to promotion in his profession), of Mr. George 

 Dickson, who so ably filled the duties of Corresponding Secre- 

 tary. In Mr. Dickson, the Association loses not only an in- 

 defatigable worker but also, from an intellectual and education- 

 al point of view, a most useful member. 



I can not refrain, also from noticing in this connection, the 

 comparatively recent death in the neighbouring City of Guelph, 

 of Dr. Hare, whom many will remember as having been, when 

 a resident in this City, an active and valuable member of this 

 Association. 



