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5. For Compilation of Check-list of the Flora of Wisconsin : 

 Chairman : Dr. S. Graenicher. 



Members : Howland Russel, Wm. Finger, E. Monroe, Dr. H. V. 

 Ogden. (This committee has the power to add to its members). 

 The annual banquet to be held in June was brought up for dis- 

 cussion. Dr. P. 11. Dernehl moved that the expense from the general 

 fund for this banquet be limited to ten ($10) dollars. Seconded and 

 carried. 



Upon motion the meeting then adjourned. 



Milwaukee, May 12. 1910. 



Meeting of the combined sections. 



Mr. E. E. Teller in the chair. 28 people present. Minutes of the 

 last section meeting - read and approved. 



The name of Mr. August Schoenebeck, Lena. Wis., nominated by 

 Mr. H. Clowes, was presented to the society and referred to the direc- 

 tors for action. 



The session was devoted to Biography. As of special intei*est 

 "Darwin and His Contemporaries" had been assigned for the evening. 



Dr. J. J. McGovern opened the session with a paper on Charles 

 Darwin, his Life and Work. In brief outlines Dr. McGovern sum- 

 marized the youth and student days of Darwin, his distaste for the 

 study of medicine and his early love for nature, and his abhorrence of 

 .the dissecting room ; the turning-point of Darwin's career, his first 

 ocean voyage, and the important collections obtained on this voyage, 

 the later profound results of which the world knows, formed the body 

 of Dr. McGovern l s paper. A brief estimate of the lovable character of 

 the great scientist marked the conclusion. 



Dr. George W. Peckham spoke on Darwin's friend, A. R. Wallace. 

 Dr. Peckham reviewed the somewhat erratic career of Wallace as 

 surveyor and traveler, his brief pursuit of spiritualism, and the aid 

 given by him to Darwin. He effected an interesting comparison of the 

 different natures of the two great friends. Darwin and Wallace, the 

 painstaking- effort of the former, the brilliant genius of the latter. 

 A letter from Dr. Wallace, containing his views on animal instincts, 

 was read by the speaker. 



A paper by Mr. H. L. Ward, on T. H. Huxley, was read to the meet- 

 ing by Dri S. Graenicher. An outline of Huxley's life, an estimate 

 of his scholarship and character, and a summary of his early experi- 



