350 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences^ Arts and Letters. 



EVENING SESSION. 



Supreme Court Room, 7: 30. 



President Bascom. in the chair. 



Paper, " The Unity of Moral Ideas," by Rev. C. Caverno, 

 Lombard, 111. Discussed by President Bascom and Mr. 

 Richards. 



Adjourned. 



THURSDAY MORNING. 



9:30. 

 President Irving in the chair. 



Messrs. G. E. Brown, Madison, Wis.; D. H. Morgan, Al- 

 bany, Wis.; R. G. Norton and S. Mills, Madison, Wis., elected 

 annual members. 



The committee on publication of Vol. VI reported and 

 their report was unanimously adopted by article as follows: 



RESOLUTIONS. 



1. The standing Committee on Publication are authorized to proceed at 

 once '.o the preparation of "Vol. VI of the Transactions of the Academy. 

 Said volume to have its contents arranged according to meetings and not 

 accoi'ding to departments. 



2. The Secretary of the Academy shall be charged with the special duty 

 of overseeing and editing the publication of future volumes oi:" the Tran- 

 sactions, 



3. The Transactions of the Academy hereafter published shall contain: 

 (a) a list of officers and raeoibers of the Academy; (&) the charter, by-laws 

 and constitution of the Academy as amended to date; (c) the proceedings 

 of the meetings; and (d) such papers as are duly certified in writing to the 

 Secretary as accepted for publication iu accordance with the following 

 regulations, and no otlier: 



(4.) Hereafter every author of a paper, whether it is to be read by title 

 only, or in full, shall submit, at the time of reading, a brief abstract in 

 writing, of the contents of the pviper (not to exceed one half printed page 

 in extent), which abstract shall in. all cases be printed in full in the pro- 

 ceedings of the meetings of the Academy; and no paper shall be received 

 for reading that is not accompanied by such abstract. Provided that for 

 Vol. VI. of the Transactions the Secretary shall procure such abstracts of 

 papers hitherto read. 



(5.) Papers to be printed in full or in part in the Transactions must be 

 requested of their authors by a Sub-Committee of the Standing Committee 



