BULLETIN 
OF THE 
WISCONSIN NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. 
Vol. 5, New Series. APRIL, 1907. No. 2. 
PROCEEDINGS. 
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Milwaukee, Jan. 10, 1907.. 
Meeting of the combined sections. 
President Teller in the chair, and Messrs. Barth, Brues, Brundage, 
Case, Colles, Doerflinger, Graenicher and Ward present. 
The secretary read the minutes of the last meeting, which were 
approved. 
Dr. Case spoke of collecting fossil reptiles in Texas, and related 
some of his experiences there during the past summer. 
Mr. Teller exhibited a beautiful specimen of millerite, a sulphide 
of nickel. It was an inclusion in a mass of calcite crystals. 
Mr. Brues exhibited part of a lot of fossil insects belonging to the 
Harvard Museum. There was considerable discussion among those 
present regarding the rock in which the fossils are imbedded and 
concerning the extreme abundance of fossil insects at Florissant, 
Colorado. 
The meeting then adjourned. 
Milwaukee, Jan. 31, 1907. 
Regular monthly meeting of the Society. 
President Teller in the chair, and about fifty persons present. 
Mr. Ward called attention to the suppression of part of the appro- 
priation for the Biological Survey in the agricultural appropriation 
bill, then before Congress, and moved that the secretary 'be instructed 
to express the disapproval of the Society of such action to the Wis- 
consin Members of Congress. Motion seconded and passed. 
Mr. Teller called attention to the fact that there would be a vacancy 
on the Board of Trustees of the Public Museum in May, 1907, when 
the term of office of one of the citizen members of the Board expires. 
As the state law requires that the Wisconsin Natural History Society 
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