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The minutes of the November section meeting were read and 

 approved. 



Mr. Herbert Clowes exhibited an enlarged model of a dragon-fly, 

 recently prepared for the Public Museum, mentioninig briefly the 

 methods used in making such models, which show accurately the 

 anatomy of the insects. 



C. T. Brues then exhibited a new fossil grass, Melica primwva 

 from the Miocene of Florissant, Colorado, together with a specimen of 

 Stlpa laminarum Cockerell, the only other grass known from the 

 Florissant shales. 



Dr. S. Graenicher then showed several Diptera new to this region 

 and remarked on the frequent sudden occurrence of new or little 

 known species of insects almost simultaneously in distant localities. 

 After some more general discussion the meeting adjourned. 



Milwaukee, February 18, 1909. 



Regular monthly meeting of the society. 



President Teller in the chair and about 120 persons present. 



The minutes of the last regular monthly meeting were read and 

 approved. 



The names of Dr. G. V. I. Brown, Dr. John M. McGovern, Dr. John 

 Jefferson Davis, Dr. Gustav J. Kaumheimer, Mr. Edgar W. Coleman 

 and Mr. J. M. W. Pratt were proposed for membership and subsequently 

 acted favorably upon by the board of directors. 



The secretary then read a recommendation adopted by the board 

 of trustees of the Public Museum, offering to cooperate with the society 

 in the publishing of its quarterly bulletin. They proposed to share the 

 cost of publication in such proportion as the number of copies used by 

 the museum for exchanges compared with the total edition of each 

 bulletin. On motion of Dr. Earth the matter was referred to a com- 

 mittee of three for consideration. President Teller appointed Dr. 

 Earth, Dr. Graenicher and Mr. Finger to serve as such committee to 

 report at the next regular meeting. There being no further business 

 before the meeting, Dr. "William Alanson Bryan, of Honolulu, Director 

 of the Pacific Scientific Institution, lectured on "Fire Fountains," a 

 visit to Hawaii's active volcano, Kilauea. Dr. Bryan first gave a gen- 

 eral account of the Hawaiian Islands, with regard to both their 

 geological and biological characteristics. He showed by means of 



