16 Wisconsin Academy cf Sciences, Arts, and Letters. 



The Wisconsin Journal of Education. Published and edited successively 

 by Geo. P. Dodge, Janesville; John G. McMynn, Racine; A.J. Craig 

 and John B. Pradt, Madison, from 1856 to 1864; by Williams & Peck, 

 Mineral Point, from 1866 to 1869. 



The School Monthly. By Milwaukee Teachers' Association. 1869. 



In Journalism, wliicli niiglit properly enougli be considered 

 under tlie head of Social Science, "Wisconsin liad readied a po- 

 sition wliicli at once evidenced tlie general intelligence of lier 

 population and reflected credit upon lier journalists ; for tlie 

 total numl^er of newspapers and otlier periodicals was no less 

 tlian 174, — of wliicli 6 were montlily, 1 semi-monthly, 11 daily 

 and weekly, and 153 weekly, — and for creditable appearance, 

 editorial ability and extent of circulation, they compared fa- 

 borably with the like publications of any state in the union, 



It is also worthy of note that Wisconsin was one of, if not 

 the, first of the states to form an editorial association (organ- 

 ized in 1857,) and that the same has had a career of uninter- 

 rupted prosperity and usefulness; holding annual meetings 

 and publishing fourteen volumes of its proceedings. 



A list of the newspapers and other periodical publications 

 regularly issued at the date of January, 1870, will be found 

 in the Legislative Manual for that year. 



In the Natund Sciejices more had been accomplished than at 

 first appeared ; but unhappily for our State, comparatively 

 little of it could be credited to Wisconsin ; and even this had 

 been chiefly the work of a few private citizens devoted to 

 scientific pursuits, such as Dr. I. A. Laphani, LL. D., and Dr. 

 P. R Hoy, M. D., who without other reward than the satis- 

 faction of having done the public a great service, have con- 

 tinued their scientific labors without intermission even from 

 early territorial times down to the present hour. Moreover, 

 the work actually done, whether by citizens, the State, or the 

 United States, had been almost wholly confined to geodetic, 

 tojoographical, nautical and natural history surve3's. 



