

Journal and Proceedings 



IDamilton Heeociatton 



FOR SESSION OF 1896-97. 



ISTTJIL^BESI^ SZIII. 



CONTENTS. 



\ PAGE. 



Officers for 1896-7 3 



Office-bearers from 1857 4 



Members of Council from 1857 ... 6 



Report of Council 8 



Inaugural Address 9 



Lake Medad and the Kwin-Ni-Bi- 



Nah Collection of Indian Relics. 14 



Report of Geological Section 18 



Notes on Some Recent Additions ■ 



to Ontario Palaeontology 20 • 



Local Palffiontological Notes in 



Continuation 27 



Local Palaeontological Notes in 



Continuation 34 



The Mineral of Our Local Rocks. 38 



PAGE. 



Memo, of the Cutting on the Spur 



Line where it crosses Main St. W. 44 



The Function of Poetry . 46 



The Dynamics of Social Peril 57 



Report of the Photographic Section 67 



Report of the Biological Section . . 69 



Notes by the Wayside 73 



The Battle of Stony Creek 79 



Curator's Report 93 



Financial Statement , 94 



Botanical List 95 



Palaeontological List 128 



Honorary Members 137 



List of Exchanges 138 



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PRINTED FOB THE HAMILTON ASSOCIATION BY THE 

 TIMES PRINTING COMPANY. 



1897. 



