•42 Wisconsin Academy of /Sciences, Arts, and Letters. 



Eeeults of Recent Observations in the Lead Regions of Wisconsin. By 

 Hon. John Murrish, Mazomauie. 



On the Laws which Govern the Configuration of Comets. By John Y. Smith, 

 Madison. 



On the Kinetic Measure of Forces. By Prof. John E. Davies, M. D., State 

 L^niversity. 



On the Duty of the State to its Idiotic Children. By Prof. 0. R. Smith, Mil- 

 waukee. 



On the Place which the Indian Languages should hold iu the Study of 

 Ethnology. By Prof. John B. Feuling, Ph. D., Secretary of the De- 

 partment of Letters, State University. 



On the Clay Deposits and the Fossils found therein in the Region about 

 Appleton. By Dr. R. Z. Mason, LL. D., Appleton. 



On the Ancient Lakes of Wisconsin. By Hon. J. G. Knapp, Madison. 



Suggestions as to a Basis for the Gradation of the Vertebrafa. By Prof* 

 T. C. Chamberlin, State Normal School, Whitewater. 



Facts Relating to the Local Geology of the Whitewater Region. By Prof. 

 T.C. Chamberlin. 



On the Rocks and Mines of the Upper Wisconsin River. By Hon. J. G. 

 Knapp,, I^adison. 



The German Sunday. By Rt. Rev. Wm. E. Armitage, D. D., Vice President 

 of the Department of the Social and Political Sciences. 



The Relations of Capital and Labor. By Dr. A. L. Chapin, D. D., LL.D., 

 Vice President for the Department of Letters. 



Social Science and Woman Suffrage. By Hon. Charles Caverno, Secretary 

 for the Department of the Social and Political Sciences. 



The Common Jail System of the Country. By Hon. D. S. Hastings, Secre- 

 tary of the State Board of Charities. 

 The Physical Basis of the Mineral Sources of Wisconsin. By Hon. John 



Murrish, late Commissioner for the Survey of the Lead Region. 

 Insects injurious to Agriculture — Aphides. By Dr. P. R. Hoy, Vice Presi- 

 dent for the Department of the Natural Sciences. 

 On the Age of the Quartzites, Schists and Conglomerates of Sauk county. 

 By Roland Irving, M. A., M. E., Professor of Geology, etc., in the State 

 University of Wisconsin. 

 Observations on some of the Coal Deposits of Colorado. By Dr. J. W. 



Hoyt, President of the Academy. 

 On the Potential Functions and their application in Physical Science. By 



Prof. John E. Davies, M. D., State University. , 



On a Modification of Grove's Battery for a special Purpose. By Prof. John 



E. Davies, M. D. 

 The Theory of Evolution illustrated by the Science of Language. By Dr. 



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