Eeport of the President. 27 



Wisconsin; its Resources, Condition and Prospects. By A. F. Carman. 

 See Hunt' s Merchants' Magazine, Vol. 28, pp. 444^53. 



Wisconsin and its Resources. By Josiali Bond. See Hunt's Merchants' 

 Magazine. Vol. 10, p. 541 . 



Emigrants' Guide to the West. By C. F. J. MoUer. Madison. 1865. 8vo, 

 pp. 14. (In Danish.) 



Statistics— History, Climate and Productions of Wisconsin. Published by 

 order of the Legislature. Svo., pp. 33, with maps. 



Wisconsin and the International Exhibitions of 1863 and 1867. By J. W. 

 Hoyt, State Commissioner. Madison. 1869. 8vo. pp.100. Also pub- 

 lished in Transactions Wisconsin State Agricultural Society. Vol. 8. 

 1861-8. 



Reports of Wisconsin Fruit Growers' Association. Organized in 1853. First 

 reports in pamphlet form; from 1859-1865 inclusive. In Transactions 



Wisconsin State Agricultural Society. 



Reports of Wisconsin State Horticultural Society, 1805-1870. See Trans- 

 actions Wisconsin State Agricultural Society. 



Proceedings of the Wisconsin Sugar-cane Growers' Convention. Madison. 

 W J. Park, State Printer. 1864. Svo. 



Tlie Fine Arts had received some attention, but had made 

 little impression upon the life and character of the people. 

 The practice in Architecture, both in the construction of 

 private dwellings and buildings for public use, gave here, as 

 elsewhere in our country, painful proof of a prevailing ignor- 

 rance of the principles of the art. Painting had been favored 

 with many votaries of considerable promise, but no effort had 

 been made to bring them into any sort of relations of associ- 

 ated effort, and there was nowhere in the State, even the 

 beginning of what could be called an Art Gallery. Sculpture 

 had been attempted by but two of our citizens, so far as we 

 are aware, both of whom, however, were artists of high promise, 

 and one of whom — Miss Vinnie Ream, a native of Madison — 

 had already commanded the attention and confidence of the 

 National Government and won for her name a more than 

 national distinction. 



In Letters^ the product of our labor, though interesting, and 

 in some cases of very superior quality, did not aggregate much 



