BULLETIN ^1 



OF THE 



WISCONSIN NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. 



Vol. 8. JULY, 1910. No. 3 



PROCEEDINGS. 



Milwaukee, April 14, 1910. 



Meeting of the combined sections. 



President Earth in the chair. 27 people present. Minutes of last 

 meeting read and approved. 



Mr. I. X. Mitchell gave an illustrated lecture on the subject of 

 Heredit\*. 



Upon motion the meeting adjourned. 



Milwaukee. April 28, 1910. 



Annual meeting of the society. President Barth in the chair. 22 

 people present. .Minutes of the last reg-ular meeting read and approved. 



The following nominations were presented by Dr. Barth: F. 

 Stresau, 295 9th St.. Walter Allen, 932 Hackett Ave., Henry Harniseh- 

 feger, 3416 Grand Ave., August Luedke, 283 11th St.. O. G. Gilbert, 1127 

 18th St.. Charles H. Bauwald, 1321 Cedar St.; all were subsequently 

 elected members by the board of directors. 



The lecture of the evening was given by Prof. W. D. Frost, of the 

 Bacteriological Department of the University of Wisconsin, on the 

 topic "Life of Pathological Bacteria" outside of the body. Saying 

 that there are no bacteria outside of the animal body except a very 

 few, such as the Tetanus germ and the lumpy jaw (in cattle) bacillus, 

 Prof. Frost traced the development of our knowledge of the typhoid 

 germ from the old theory that it is due to low ground water to the 

 present accepted view that it is transmitted by direct contact. Resis- 

 tance formed an important part of the lecture and was instanced by the 

 tuberculosis germ, tetanus, typhoid and other bacteria ; because of the 



