Apbil 13, 1906.] 



SCIENCE. 



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to find perfect specimens we do not look at the 

 most advanced classes, but to the reverse. Those 

 who live to extreme old age are generally in the 

 lowly ranks. But why has physical development 

 ceased at all? Why are there not some superior 

 beings by this time? But alas, there are no 

 marks or indications of wings or halos on either 

 the great saints or scientists of the day. 



Alas, there are not! 



Cakl H. Eigenmann. 



SOCIETIES AND ACADEMIES. 



THE WISCONSIN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, ARTS 

 AND LETTERS. 



The thirty-fifth annual meeting of the Wis- 

 consin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters 

 was held at Madison, February 8 and 9, 1906, 

 the president of the academy. Dr. John J. 

 Davis, presiding. On the evening of February 

 8 a dinner, complimentary to visiting mem- 

 bers, was given, followed by an address by 

 the president on ' The Academy — Its Past and 

 Its Future.' During the four regular ses- 

 sions the following program was presented: 



RiCHABD G. Norton : ' An Investigation into 

 the Cause of the Breaking of Watch Springs in 

 Greater Numbers during the Warm Months of 

 the Year.' 



C. S. Slichtee : ' The Limitations of a General 

 Method of Approximation in Hydrodynamics.' 



C. S. Slighter : ' A Fundamental Existence 

 Theorem for Linear Homogenous Differential 

 Equations.' 



JamesL. Bartlett: 'The Climate of Madison.' 



A. R. Whitson : ' The Influence of Soil Tem- 

 perature on the Occurrence of Frost.' 



G. C. Comstock: 'The Luminosity of the 

 Brightest Stars.' 



Edward T. Owen : ' Hybrid Parts of Speech.' 



Nina M. Sheldon : ' The Supernatural Ele- 

 ments in the English and Scottish Ballads.' 



Arthur Beatty : ' English Dramatic Origins — 

 A Protological Study.' 



F. C. Sharp : ' A Study of Moral Standards.' 



Reuben G. Thwaites: Memorial Address — 

 ' James Davie Butler.' 



Charles E. Brown : ' Wisconsin's Quartzite 

 Implements.' 



Arthur C. Boggess : ' The Period of Anarchy 

 in Illinois, 1782-90.' 



Solon J. Buck -. ' The Occupation of Govern- 

 ment Land in Oklahoma Territory.' 



J. F. DiLWORTH : ' Life in the Beguinages before 

 the Reformation.' 



E. K. J. H. Voss: 'A Nuremberg City Ordi- 

 nance of the Year 1562, Issued during the Time 

 of the Black Death.' 



D. L. Patterson : ' Alexander and the Council 

 of Worms.' 



D. C. MuNRO : ' The Children's Crusade.' 



G. C. Selleky : ' Suspension of habeas corpus in 

 the Civil War.' 



Ulrich B. Phillips : ' Problems of Colonization 

 as Illustrated in the Province of Georgia.' 



C. R. Fish : ' Tables Illustrating the Progress 

 of Rotation in Office.' 



Wm. v. Pooley : ' Causes Affecting the West- 

 ward Movement of Settlement Prior to 1850.' 



W. F. KoELKER : ' Note on the Nature of the 

 Hydrocarbons Occurring in Wisconsin Oil Rock.' 



Louis Kahlenberq and Alonzo S. McDaniel: 

 ' On the Differences of Potential between Man- 

 ganese and Lead Peroxides and Various Aqueous 

 and Non-aqueous Solutions.' 



L. A. Youtz : ' Nitrogen from the Atmosphere 

 and Its Use in the Annealing of Brass Wire.' 



V. Lenheb : ' Nitroselenie Acid.' 



W. D. Frost, R. Whitman and R. E. Milten- 

 BEROEE : ' Effect of Desiccation on Bacillus dysen- 

 iericB Shiga.' 



George Wagner : ' A Note on the Chemotaxis 

 of Oxytricha aeruginosa.' 



George Wagner : ' Some Points in the Natural 

 History of the Spoon-bill Catfish.' 



G. A. Talbert : ' Variations of the Brachial and 

 Sciatic Plexus of the Frog.' 



G. A. Talbert : ' Cerebral Localization from a 

 Clinical Study.' 



C. B. Haedenberg : ' Comparative Studies on 

 the Trophi of Scarabosidce.' 



E. A. Birge and V. Lenheb : 'The Gases of 

 Wisconsin Lakes.' 



E. C. Case : ' Wave-rolled Snowballs.' 



W. S. Miller : ' The Mesothelium of the Pleural 

 Cavity.' 



S. Weidman: 'An Additional Driftless Area in 

 Wisconsin.' 



J. J. Davis : ' Notes on a Few Parasitic Fungi 

 of the Pacific Northwest.' 



R. H. Denniston : ' Gasteromycetes of Wiscon- 

 sin.' 



C. E. Allen : ' ' The Life History of Goleoohcete.' 



George M. Reed : ' Infection Experiments with 

 the Mildew on the Cucurbits.' 



R. A. Harper : ' The Nature of the Variation 

 of the Spore Number in the Ascus.' 



