28 JOURNAL AND PROCEEDINGS 



SIXTH MEETING. 



Twenty-Sixth year, 3rd April, 1884. 



The President in the chair. 



Minutes of last meeting read and approved of. 



New members elected : Rev. W. W. Carson, W. E. Brown, W. 

 A. Childs, Edward C. Murton. Proposed for election, W. C. Harvey. 



The Committee appointed to find suitable accommodation for 

 the Museum and Library of the Association, reported that they had 

 to recommend the Association to lease the Hall in the Alexandra 

 Arcade, at an anuual rent of two hundred dollars, the proprietor 

 paying all cost of heating and cleaning, and also all taxes, according 

 to the terms of Mr. McQuesten's letter to the Secretary. 



The Secretary read a letter from Mr. McQuesten offering the 

 Hall in the Alexandra Arcade on the terms mentioned by the Com- 

 mittee. It was agreed to lease the Hail for the term of five years, 

 with the option of breaking the lease at the end of the second year 

 if the Association found the room unsuitable, and the Committee 

 were authorized to see the room properly fitted up. 



Mr. Witton drew the attention of the Association to the desira- 

 bility of preparing and printing, for circulation, the transactions of 

 the Association in a more suitable form them had hitherto been 

 done. 



A Committee was appointed to inquire into the standing of 

 members in arrear with their subscriptions. 



The Secretary read a letter from Mr. Gibson announcing the 

 receipt by the Association of a grant of four hundred dollars from 

 the Provincial Government, and also an extract from the printed 

 list of Provincial Estimates to the same effect. 



Mr. Robinson gave notice that at the next meeting he would 

 make a motion that the annual subscription be increased. 



Mr. R. Hinchliffe then read a paper on " Dynamo Electric 

 Machines." 



At the close of the meeting Mr. Witton exhibited a portion of 

 the jaw of a fish found in coal from Pennsylvania. 



Donations to Library and Museum : By Mr. Stanley McNider, 

 Case of Photographic Views of Ruins at Copan, Central America, 



