TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



DEPARTMENT OF LETTERS. 



I. The English Cottagers op the Middle Ages — by Prof. W. 



i''. -4Ke?i, State University, Madison 1 



II. The Philosophy of History — by Prof. A. 0. Wright, Wis- 

 consin Female College, Fox Lake (now Secretary State 

 Board of Charities and Reform, Madison) 13 



HI. Life Insurance, Savings Banks, and the Industrial Situa- 

 tion — by Rev. Charles Gaverno, Lombard, 111 21 



IV. Distribution of Profits, a New Arrangement of that 



Subject — by Prof. A. 0. Wright, Fox Lake 38 



V. Wealth, Capital and Credit — by Prof. J. B. Parkinson, 



State University, Madison 46 



VI. The Nature and Functions of Credit — by Pres. A. L. 



Chapin, D. D., Beloit College, Beloit 57 



VXI. Nature and the Supernatural — by Prof. J. J. EVtmndmf, 



S. T. D., Racine College, Racine 66 



VIII. First French Foot-Prints Beyond the Lakes — by Prof. J. 



D. Butler, LL. D., Madison 85 



IX. The Philosophy of F. H. Jacobi — by Prof W. G. Saioyer, 

 Lawrence University, Appleton (now of the State Normal 

 School, Oshkosh) 146 



X. The 'Mtt^? AsyopiEva OF Shakspere — by Prof. J. D. But- 

 ler, LL. D., Madison 161 



DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCES. 



XI. A List of the Crustacea of Wisconsin — by W. F. Bundy, 

 M. D., Sauk City (now professor Eclectic Medical College, 

 Chicago, 111 177 



XII. The Corals of Delapield — by Ira M. Buell, Beloit 185 



XIII. On Some Points in the Geology of the Region about 



Beloit — by O. D. Sweezy, Beloit (now professor in Doane 

 College, Crete, Neb) 194 



XIV. The Tides — by Capt. John Nader, Madison 207 



