JANUARY, 1902. 
PROCEEDINGS. 
5 
Thursday, Nov. 22, 1900. 
The general meeting for November was held on the evening 
of the twenty-second, in the Museum lecture room, with President 
Teller in the chair and thirty persons present. 
Chas. E. Brown reported on a meeting of the combined sec- 
tions held on the eighth of the month. 
Dr. Robinson was proposed for membership by Mr. Nehrling 
and elected a member of the society. 
Dr. S. Graenicher next read a paper on the "Fertilization of 
Symphoricarpos and Lonicera," illustrating it by drawings show- 
ing the structure of the flowers and by specimens of all the insects 
he had found visiting them. Two species of Symphoricarpos were 
considered, S. racemosus and S. occidentalis. The first was vis- 
ited principally by the smaller bees and the other also by a great 
many wasps. 
Of the five species of Lonicera native to this locality, two, L. 
ciliata and L. Tatarica, are visited principally by the smaller bees, 
while the three remaining species, L. dioica, L. oblongifolia and 
L. Sullivantii, are bumble-bee flowers, but include also many of the 
smaller bees, a few flies and lepidoptera, as well as the humming 
bird among their visitors. 
Thursday, Dec. 27, 1900. 
This meeting was held in the usual place — the Museum lecture 
room — and was presided over by President Teller. The attend- 
ance was twenty-five. 
C. E. Brown reported on a union section meeting and also on 
a meeting of the Archeology Section held earlier in the month. 
Mr. Valentine Fernekes was proposed for membership by Mr. 
Nehrling and duly elected. 
Ernest Bruncken then addressed the meeting on the physiog- 
raphv of Milwaukee County. 
The speaker described the general features of the surface 
geology of the vicinity and drew attention to many problems that 
still awaited solution, such for instance as whether the terraces 
along the Menominee valley were identical in height with corre- 
sponding ones along the lake front. He drew attention also to the 
absence of large limestone boulders in this vicinity in contrast to 
their frequent occurrence farther west. 
President Teller then read an instructive paper on fossil cepha- 
lopods, illustrating it with a number of specimens of local species 
from his own collection. He drew attention to a variation he 
had detected in the siphuncle of a cephalopod, Orthoceras ahnorme 
