BULLETIN 
OF THE 
WISCONSIN NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. 
Vol. 5, New Series. DECEMBER, 1907 No. 4 
PROCEEDINGS. 
Milwaukee, Sept. 26, 1907. 
Regular monthly meeting" of the Society,. 
President Teller in the chair and about fifty persons present. 
The name of Mrs. E. Kuemmelin was proposed for membership 
and she was elected by the board of directors. 
There being no further business Prof. I. N. Mitchell of the State 
Normal School spoke on "Burbank's Work With Plants." He de- 
scribed the early life of Mr. Burbank, his first experiments in plant 
breeding and the difficulties which he encountered at the beginning of 
his work. After referring to the peculiarly acute observation of 
Mr. Burbank and his fine and discriminating methods of plant selection, 
the speaker turned to a consideration of a number of the more im- 
portant new varieties of plants which Mr. Burbank has produced, il- 
lustrating his remarks by means of stereopticon pictures. 
After the lecture the meeting adjourned. 
Milwaukee, Oct. 10, 1907. 
Meeting of the combined sections : 
President Teller in the chair and Mrs. Euemmelin.. Messrs. Brues, 
Colles, Edwards, Finger, Graenicher, Landau. Monroe, Russell and 
Ward present. Mr. Colles exhibited some rocks and minerals from 
Northern Ontario. Among them was a fine specimen of dendritic sil- 
ver, probably deposited from solution ; some cobalt bloom and some 
glaciated slate. 
Mr. Monroe exhibited specimens of asters collected in September 
in the east. These included the following forms : Aster divaricatm, 
L., and varieties; A. Claytoni Burg; A undulatus L., and variety; A. 
patens, L., and A. acuminatus Michx.; all from western Massachusetts 
or Connecticut ; A. ericoides L. from western Connecticut and A. eri 
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