OF THE HAMILTON ASSOCIATION. 2Q 



Box of Specimens of Gravel found in the bed of Lake Ilopango, Sal- 

 vador, with report on the earthquake and volcanic phenomena, 

 which dried the lake, and photograph of the volcano in action. 



SEVENTH MEETING. 



Twenty-Sixth year, Thursday, 15th May, 1884. 



The President in the chair. 



The minutes of last meeting read and approved of. 



New member elected : W. C. Harvey. Proposed for election : 

 Henry McLaren, James Laffeity, M. D. 



Donations to Library and Museum : Vol. I. Transactions of the 

 Royal Society of Canada, by Thomas Robertson, Esq. M. P. for 

 Hamilton ; Case of Birds' Eggs ; Collection of Insects ; Samples of 

 Insect Architecture ; Samples of Glasgow Method of Printing for 

 the Blind ; Nest of Chaetura Pelasgia, by Mr. J. Alston Moffat. 



The Committee appointed to lease the hall in the Alexandra 

 Arcade, reported that the hall had been taken for a term of five 

 years, with the option of breaking the lease at the end of the second 

 year in the event of its being unsuitable. The annual rent of two 

 hundred dollars to include all costs of attendance, light, heating and 

 taxes. The lease, which had been approved of by the Council of 

 the Association was ready for signing. 



The Committee appointed to collecte the subscriptions in ar- 

 rear had no report. 



The Secretary had on the table a copy of the act of incorpora- 

 tion, and a letter from Mr. Colmer, the secretary for the High Com- 

 missioner for Canada, in London, expressing his willingness to for- 

 ward all parcels addressed to the Association, which might be left 

 with him. 



Applications for the use of the hall, were received from the St. 

 Andrew's Society and the Hamilton Medical Association. These 

 applications were referred to the Council. 



Rev. Dr. Mockridge drew the attention of the Association to the 

 forthcoming visit of the British Association to Canada, and proposed 

 that the council of the Association should be empowered to extend 

 to any member of this Association, such welcome as they should see 



