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ONTENTS. 



Page. 

 I. LISTS OF OFFICERS AND MEMBERS 5-8 



II. REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT— 

 Embracing: 

 1. Reasons for tlie organization of the Academy, witli a record of what liad 

 previously been done by, and in behalf of, Wisconsin in the Sciences, in 



the Arts, and in Letters 9 



3. General Plan of the Academy 36 



3. What the Academy has done 38 



III. SOME OP THE PAPERS READ BEFORE THE ACADEMY: 



DEPARTMENT OF THE SOCIAX, AND POLITICAL SCIENCES. 



1. The Relation of Labor and CaDital. By A. L. Chapin, D. D., LL.D., 



President of Beloit College 45 



2. The German Sunday. By Right Rev. W. E. Armitage, D. D., Protestant 



Episcopal Bishop of Wisconsin 63 



3. Social Science and Woman Suffrage. By Rev. Charles Caverno, A. M. .. 72 



4. The Common Jail System of the Csuntry. By Hon. S. D. Hastings, Sec- 



retary of the State Board of Charities 90 



DEPARTMENT OP THE NATURAL SCIENCES. 



5. Deep Water Fauna of Lake Michigan. By P. R. Hoy, M. D 98 



6. On the Classification of Plants. By I. A. Lapham, LL.D 103 



7. Insects Injurious to Agriculture— Aphides. By P. R. Hoy, M. D 110 



8. Coniferse of the Rocky Mountains and their Adaptation to the Soil and 



Climate of Wisconsin. By J. G. Knapp, Esq 117 



9. Report on the Geology of the Region about Devil's Lake. By Professor 



Jas. H. Eaton, Ph. D 134 



10. On the Age of the Quartzites, Schists and Conglomerates of Sauk County. 



By Professor Roland Irving, E. M 139 



11. Suggestions as to a Basis for the Gradation of the Vertebrata. By Prof. 



T. C. Chamberlin 138 



12. Ancient Lakes of Wisconsin. By J. G. Knapp, Esq 151 



13. On the Mineral Well at Waterloo, Wis. By Rev. A. O. Wright, A. M. . . . 154 



14. On Potentials, [and their Application in Physical Scienee. By Prof. 



John E. Davies, M. D : 155 



