186 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences^ Arts, and Letters. 



FIRST MEETING OF THE GENERAL COUNCIL. 



Adoption of By-Laws. 



The General Council of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, 

 Arts and Letters, met pursuant to the call of the President, in 

 the State Agricultural Rooms, at 9 o'clock A. M., of February 

 17, 1870. 



Present — Messrs. J. W. Hoyt, President, in the Chair, P. R, 

 Hoy, T. C. Pound, Geo. P. Delaplaine, Wm. Dudley, J. G. 

 Knapp, T. C. Chamberlin, R. Z. Mason, S. V. Shipman and I. A. 

 Lapham. 



After due consideration, the Council adopted the following 

 By-Laws: 



[For jjy-Ajiiv*'5, SGS xjULLetix 1\o, 1.] 



On motion, the Chair appointed the following Standing Com- 

 mittees: 



On Nominations— Dr. G. M. Steele, Dr. Solon Marks and Prof. Jas. H. Eaton. 

 On Papers Presented to the Academy— Br. A. L. Chapin, Dr. P. A. Chadbourne and Dr. 

 I. A. Lapham. 

 On Finance— Mow. Xelson Dewey, Hon. Alexander Mitchell and Hon. Wm. E. Smith. 

 On the Mustum— Dr. P. R. Hoy, Charles Preus-serand John Murrish. 

 On Library— ILon. Lyman C. Draper, Dr. Joseph Bobbins and Hon. Wm. Pitt Lynde. 



The Council adjourned, " subject to call of the President." 



SECOND MEETING OF THE ACADEMY. 



First Session — Executive Proceedings. 



The Second Regular Meeting of the Academy was held in the 

 rooms of the State Agricultural Society, at Madison, commenc- 

 ing on Tuesday, July 19; fifteen members being present. The 

 president. Dr. J. W. Hoyt, in the chair. 



Letters were read from several members unable to be present. 

 Donations for the Museum were presented as follows: 



A wolverine {Gulo Il'Scvs, Sabine), killed in Juneau county, and presented by Hon. J. 

 T. Kingston, of Necedah; and a lynx (L. Canadensis. Eatinesqiic), killed near Maditon, 

 and presented by Jacob Seller of that city; w..ich, on motion, \vere accepted, with the 

 thinks of the Academy. 



Specimens of the rocks, minerals, ores, clay, etc., from Garrisonville, Sauk county, 

 presented by Mrs. Dr. Taylor of that place, were examined and commented upon. 



The President submitted an informal report of what had been 

 done since the date of the last meetino-; 



A liberal charter had been granted by the legislature, at its late ses.'jion, with author 

 ity to occupy apartments in the capitol, if not inconsistent with the public business of 

 the State; a law had been passed providing for a topographical survey of the lead dis- 

 trict, the specimens of minerals, rocks and fossils collected being required by law to be 

 deposited with the Academy; the publication oi a Bulletin had been commenced, in 

 which it was proposed to include such of the proceedings as seemed of sufficient import- 

 ance: and favorable responses, received from all parts of the Slate, gave encouraijemeut 

 to hope that the Academy would be sustained, and become an iDstitutlon of permanent 

 usefulness. 



He then laid before the Academy the text of the Charter 

 granted by the State. 

 [See No" 1 of the Bulletin, p. 17; also General Laws of Wisconsin, 1870.] 



