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on Publication, which Sub-Committee shall consist of the President and 

 Secretary of the Academy and the Vice-President of the Department in 

 which the paper fa'ls; this Subcommittee to have the authority to request 

 for publication portions only of papers, when it shall deem desirable to 

 them to do so. 



(6). In deciding as to the papers to be called for f()r publication, the 

 committtee shall have spcial regard to its value as a genuine, original 

 contribution to the knowledge of the subject discussed. 



(7.) Iq case the committee shall not feel competent to decide as to the 

 value of a paper, on account of its special or technical character, it shall 

 be their duty to call upon the author to agree with them upon some prom- 

 inent specialist or specialists, whose opinion as to its value shall be asked, 

 and shall decide the question of its publication. 



(8.) These resolutions shall not be construed so as to restrict the present 

 freedom of members in reading papers before the Academy. 



(9.) The Sub-Committee on Publication shall be charged with insisting 

 upon the correction of errors in grammar, phraseology, etc., on the part of 

 authors, and shall call the attention of authors to any other points in their 

 papers, which in their judgment appears to need revision, 



(10,) The Publishing Committee are authorized to expend not to exceed 

 one hundred dollars for illustrations to Vol. VI of the Transactions. 



ROLAND D. IRVING, ] 



W. F. ALLEN, 



P. R. HAY, 



A. O. WRIGHT, j 



Papers read: 



" The effect of local attractions on the Plumb line and Sea 

 Level/' Prof. J. E. Davies, Madison. 

 " Time and Tide," Capt, John Nader, Madison. 

 "Nature and Freedom/' Prof. J. J. Eleraendorf, Racine. 

 " Sorghum Sugar/' M, S. Swenson, M, S., Madison. 

 Adjourned, 12:30. 



Committee. 



AFTERNOON SESSION. 



President Bascom in the chair. 



Prof. Elmendorf read a paper entitled " The Ideal Man."' 

 Prof. A. O. Wright read a paper on " Pauperism.'' 

 Prof. Allen read a paper on " The Sochemanni." 

 Read by title: 



D. P. Blackstone, " The Variations in the attractions due 

 to the figure of the attracting Bodies." 



E. A. Birge, " Embryology of Panopaeus Sayi.' 



