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SCIENCE. 



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THE WISCOXSIX ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, ARTS 

 AND LETTERS. 



The thirty-fifth annual meeting of the 

 academy was held at Milwaukee, December 28 

 and 29. The program contained twenty-six 

 titles as follows: 



James Davie Butler : ' Charles Kendall 

 Adams — His Placj in Three Universities.' 



C. S. Slighter: 'The Specific Capacity of 

 Wells.' (By title.) 



J. H. Farley: 'The Concept of Motion.' 



J. S. RoESELER: ' The Present Status of the Wis- 

 consin Industrial School for Boys — Its Mechanism 

 and Methods.' 



E. B. Skinner: 'The Determination of the 

 Value of the Right of Way for Wisconsin Rail- 

 roads.' 



E. B. HuTCHiNS, Jr. : ' A Contribution to the 

 Chemistry of the Tellurates.' 



F. L. Shinn : ' On the Electrical Conductivity 

 of Vapors.' (By title.) 



Louis Kahlenbeeg and Herman Schlundt: 

 ' On the Evolution of Hydrogen During the Action 

 of Sodium on Mercury.' 



Louis Kahlenberg: 'On the Measurement of 

 Osmotic Pressures.' 



Edward Kremers: 'On Classification of Car- 

 bon Compounds, II.' 



Wm. H. Hobbs : ' Some Examples of Fault 

 Networks.' 



Dr. Sigmund Graenicher: 'The Relations of 

 the Andrenine Bees to the Entomophilous Flora of 

 Milwaukee County.' 



R. H. Denniston: 'The Russulas of Madison 

 and Vicinity.' 



George M. Reed: 'Infection Experiments 

 with Erysiphe Graminis.' 



Valentine Fernekes and C. E. Brown : ' The 

 Fungi of Milwaukee Count}' and Vicinity.' (By 

 title.) 



R. A. Harper: ' Spore Formation in Cordyceps 

 Herculea Schw.' 



S. P. Nichols : ' The Nature and Origin of the 

 Binucleated Cells in Certain Basidioinycetes.' 



A. H. Christman : ' Observation on the Win- 

 tering of the Grain Rusts in Wisconsin.' 



W. D. Frost and E. V. McComb: 'Soil Bac- 

 teria in the Vicinity of Madison.' 



W. D. Frost, C. G. Davies and H. F. Helm- 

 HOLTZ: 'The Viability of Bacterium Diph- 

 therite.' 



George W. and Elizabeth G. Peckham: 'The 

 Attidce of Borneo.' (By title.) 



W^. S. Marshall: 'Experiments with Caddis- 

 fly Larvse.' 



George Wagner: 'Notes on the Behavior of 

 Physa Ancillaria.' 



M. V. O'Shea : ' The Psychology of Linguistic 

 Development in the Individual.' 



C. E. Brown : ' The Fluted Stone Axes of Wis- 

 consin.' 



A. G. Laird: 'The Greek and Persian Armies 

 at Thermopylae.' (By title.) 



The attendance was not large, but the ses- 

 sions were marked by strong interest on the 

 part of all present, and the papers were, as a 

 rule, freely discussed. 



The meeting was noteworthy on account of 

 the inception of plans for strengthening the 

 work of the academy. Steps were taken look- 

 ing toward the publication of the Transac- 

 tions in series instead of in a single volume 

 of two parts as heretofore. A committee was 

 appointed to see what may be done in the way 

 of increasing the exchange list and filling 

 gaps in the library. Five hundred dollars 

 were appropriated for the work of this com- 

 mittee. The academy has already a valuable 

 library, consisting almost entirely of trans- 

 actions of learned societies from all parts of 

 the world. 



Part 2 of Vol. XIV. of the Transactions 

 was issued in September, 1904. 



E. B. Skixxeu, 



Secretary. 



THE SCIENCE CLUB OF THE UNIVERSITY OF 

 WISCOXSIX. 



The fourth meeting of the club for the year 

 1904—05, was held on January 24. The fol- 

 lowing papers made up the program of the 

 evening : 



The Panama Canal — a symposium : 

 F. E. TuRNEAURE: 'Engineering Features.' 

 W. A. Scott : ' The Economic Aspects.' 

 W. D. Frost: 'The Hygienic Problems.' 



F. W. WOLL, 



Secretary. 



THE ELISHA MITCHELL SCIENTIFIC SOCIETY. 



The 157th meeting of the Elisha Mitchell 

 Scientific Society of the University of North 

 Carolina was held in the chemical lecture 



