PROCEEDINGS. 



REPOKT OF THE SECRETARY, 1900. 



Tpiikty-fiest An-in'uai. Meeting. 



Milwaukee, Wis., Dec. 2Y-28, 1900. 

 All meetino;s of the Academy were held in Club Room ISTo. 

 486 of the Plankinton House. The several sessions were car- 

 ried out in accordance with the printed program, with the ex- 

 ception of some few change's in the order in which the papers 

 were read. This program was as follows : 



TKUESDAY MORXING, DECEMBER 27. 



Reports of officers and other general business. 



Address in memory of the late Professor John E. Davies, by Professor 



J. B. Parkinson. 

 Reading of papers at 10:15 o'clock. 



1. An example of a theoretical system of weight factors of ready ap- 



plication in the solution of observation equations. Albert S. 

 Flint. 



2. On an improved method of determining latent heat of vaporiza- 



tion. Louis Kalilen'berg. 



3. The plankton of Green Lake and Lake Winnebago. G. Dwight 



Marsh. 



4. Some recent observations on the migration of birds. H. A. Win- 



keniverder. 



THURSDAY AFTERNOON. 



5. Determinism, decrees, and immutable law. Charles Caverno. 



6. Personal names, their etymology. James D. Butler. 



7. A campaign cry of 1844. H. J. Desmond. 



8. Shakespeare's knowledge of criminal psychology. F. C. Sharp. 



9. Early political platforms in Wisconsin. John G. Gregory. 



