62 Bulletin Wisconsin Natural History Society. [Vol. 8, No. 2. 



Milwaukee, Wis., Jan. 27, 1910. 



Regular meeting of the society. 



Vice-president Ward in the chair. At least til) people present. 



Minutes of the last regular meeting read and approved. 



The order of business was reversed and Dr. S. Barrett, of the 

 Public Museum, gave an interesting lecture on the Cayapa Indians of 

 Ecuador. The lecture was illustrated with lantern slides. 



After five minutes intermission at 1he close of the lecture the 

 regular business was taken up. 



The resignation of Mr. C. T. limes as editor of the bulletin was 

 read and accepted by the members. Two communications addressed 

 to Mr. Ward by Mr. Beatty of the Wisconsin Academy of Science were 

 read by the secretary; one expressing the pleasure of the Academy in 

 the Society's agreement to co-operate in the joint meeting- of the 

 Wisconsin Scientific societies in February, the second letter announcing 

 that the Academy had accepted an invitation to attend a dinner at 

 Milwaukee Downer College on the evening of Feb. 17th. The latter 

 point was brought to discussion and finally accepted by the members. 



Mr. Ward then requested all members who intended to read any 

 paper during the joint meeting to place the title in the hands of the sec- 

 retary by Feb. 3rd, so that they could be transmitted to the Secretary 

 of the Academy in time to be included in the printed program. 



Upon motion the meeting then adjourned. 



Milwaukee, Feb. 10, 1910. 



Meeting of the combined sections. 



President Barth in the chair. 37 people present. 



Minutes of the last section meeting read and approved. 



The nomination of Mr. Bernard Brah, Public Museum, for mem- 

 bership was presented : he was subsequently elected by the board of 

 directors at their meeting. 



President Barth announced that the February program of the 

 Nature of Poisons had been postponed until March. 



Mr. Charles C. Carpenter then spoke on the subject Laying Out 

 The Home Grounds. He advocated a general parking system for the 

 residence sections of the city : where lots are narrow he advised the 

 removal of fences and the terracing of fronts, while for the larger 

 plots landscape gardening would be permissable. The talk was illus- 

 trated with black-board diagrams. 



