CONTENTS. 



PAGE. 



Officers for 1882-83 3 



Notice 4 



Office Bearers since 1857 5 



List of Members 7 



Constitution and By-Laws 13 



Forms 19 



Act of Incorporation 20 



Proceedings of the Hamilton Association 23 



Inaugural Address John D. Macdonald, M.D. 31 



Health. 



Discovery of Burlington Bay B. E. Charlton. 41 



With some account of the aboriginies of the Province of 



Ontario and the state of New York. 



Iron and Steel A. T. Freed. 5 7 



A brief historic sketch of their manufacture and use. 

 Methods and Results of Toronto Observations 



Lieut. Andrew Gordon, R. N. 73 



Dynamo-Electric Machines R. Hinchliffe. 81 



Superficial Geology of Dundas Valley and Western Ancaster, 



Wm. Kennedy. 103 



The Formation of Burlington Beach P. S. Van Wagner. 142 



Food and Feeding (abstract) T. W. Reynolds, M.D. 145 



The English Language (abstract), Rev. C. H. Mockridge, D.D. 148 



Treasurer's Report 150 



Report of the Geological and Mineralogical Section 151 



List of Donations 152 



