REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT. 



His Excellency, Cadwalladeh C. Washburn", 



Governor of ^Y^scons^n: 



Sir : In compliance witli tlie law, I have tlie honor to submit 

 the following report of the "financial and other transactions" 

 of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters, for 

 the year ending February 13th, 1872. And inasmuch as cir- 

 cumstances prevented the delivery of the report of the previ- 

 ous year in time for its transmission to the last Legislature, it 

 has been deemed proper to embody herein such important facts 

 as are necessary to complete the public record of the Academy 

 from the date of its organization. 



Motives in which the Academy Originated. 



^ The Academy was organized on the 16th of February, 1870, 

 "■^ by a Convention called for that purpose by the Governor and 



( more tJian one hundred other prominent citizens of the State. 



<' The general objects aimed at were these : 

 _5 The material, intellectual and social advancement of the 



- State; 



^ The advancement of Science, Literature and the Arts. 

 ^^- 1. On the part of the State, the reasons were as many as the 

 numl)er of the elements involved in both of these gene- 

 I'al objects. For while it was obvious that the advanta- 



■^-geous geographical position of tlie State, the variety and vast- 



"-*ness of its natural resources, and tlie character of its popula- 

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