1909] Proceedings. 91 



Milwaukee, Sept. 30, 1909. 

 Regular meeting of the society. 



President Barth in the chair. About 75 persons present. 

 Mr. Ward reported for the committee appointed at the June meet- 

 ing to confer with Secretary Cannon of the Citizen's Business League 

 regarding an invitation to be extended to the American Association for 

 the advancement of Science. He said that he had written to Secretary 

 Howard of the Association regarding the requirements for a meeting 

 and in reply received a memorandum to the effect that 34 rooms, each 

 equipped with stereopticon, charts and other facilities for demonstra- 

 tion, and capable of holding from 300 — 500 people each would be re- 

 quired. This memorandum had been mailed to Secretary Cannon in 

 August ; no reply had been sent till that date and Mr. Ward considered 

 that the matter had been dropped by the business league. 



The application of Mr. Arthur Gallun, 1000 North Water street, was 

 then read. Mr. Gallun was subsequently elected an active member by 

 the directors. 



Mr. H. L. Ward then gave the evening's talk on the St. Croix river 

 collecting expedition of the Public Museum during the past summer 

 and the region passed through. He opened with a general account of 

 the purpose of the trip, of the geological formation of the territory 

 traversed by the expedition, and some remarks as to the characteristics 

 of the people of the region. The starting point of the expedition was 

 at Upper St. Croix Lake, where a week was spent in collection and com- 

 pleting the equipment ; namely three flat-bottomed boats, one of which 

 had to be built. From the Lake the expedition entered the river. After 

 a day a log jam one mile in length was reached at Gordon and the 

 boats and luggage were transferred below the jam by wagon. At 

 St. Croix Dam a stop of six days was made for collecting, after 

 which the boats were hauled over the dam into the rapids below. 

 These were met with in many places, and except for an occational 

 wedging of a boat in the rocks did not prove very difficult. Fish Trap 

 and Kettle River Rapids were the roughest. A third stop was made 

 at the mouth of the Nemakagan and also at Pansy, a hamlet farther 

 down the river. The next stop was at the mouth of the Yellow river, 

 where four interesting days were spent. 



Then came the Kettle River Rapids, which had been heralded widely 

 as the most dangerous in the region. Here the more perishable luggage 

 was transferred to wagons, to be hauled seven milSs overland to meet 



