Fifteenth Meeting, Friday Evening, 

 May 5tk 1911 



Lyman Lee, B.A., President, iu the chair. 



Present' — The Executive officers. The night being 

 stoiiny, the audience was. not so large as on most previous 

 meetings. 



Minut^-s read and approved. 



Br. Jas .Russell was unanimously elected. 



G. C. Martin, General Passenger Agent of the T., H. 

 and B., and Hev. W, E. Gilrcy, %vere duly proposed. 



jMr .11. B. Wit-ton spoke relati\'e to an article con- 

 tributed by Vice-President G. Parry Jenkins, F. R. A. S., 

 on Pieflecting Telescopes. Mr. Witton said that it was a 

 valuable contribution to astronomical literature, and com- 

 mended it to the members, of the Association. 



The President then introduced Professor A. H. Abbott, 

 B.A., Ph.D., Toronto University, saying that Professor 

 Abbott was a, valued friend of the Hamilton Association, 

 and that all present were delighted to have him lecture 

 again on those subects, of which he had such a maeterly 

 grasp . 



In commencing his lecture, the professor said that he 

 had no^ intention of attempting to answer the question 

 which was his subect, What Does Man Know About the 

 UniverBe ? but he would simply deal with the question 

 itself. 



The question as to. whether there should be philosophy 

 in the world or not was debatable, said the speaker. Man 

 was constantly coming in contact with a world he did not 

 understand, and speaking in the complete sense the great 



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