JANUARY, 1902. 
PROCEEDINGS, 
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by members of our society and others. These papers were prin- 
cipally of a popular nature, being intended for the general mem- 
bership of the society and not for the specialist, and were as 
follows : 
1. "Dakota Burial Mounds" Lee R. Whitney 
2. ''Forestry" Ernest Bruncken 
3. "Crustaceans of the Niagara Formation" E. E. Teller 
4. "Sand Dunes at Ottawa Beach" E. Bruncken 
5. "Local Ornithology" J. A. Brandon 
6. ''Earthworks of Waupaca County" F. M. Benedict 
7. "Fertilization of Lonicera and Symphoricarpos 
Dr. S. Graenicher 
8. "Physiography of Milwaukee County" E. Bruncken 
9. "Fossil Cephalopods" E. E. Teller 
10. "Winter Birds of Lake Michigan" W. J. Bennetts 
11. "Antiquities of Menasha" P. V. Lawson 
12. "Development of Life Upon the Earth as Revealed by 
Paleontology" A. W. Slocum 
13. "Life History of the Virginia Deer" W. J. Bennetts 
14. "Indian Tribes of Nicaragua" G. A. West 
15. "Geographical Distribution of Anosia Plexippus".C. E. Brown 
One of the most important ways in which our society has been 
of use to its members has been through the interchange of ideas 
and observations at the section meetings. 
Of these 19 have been held, 9 of the Archeology section, and 
10 union meetings of the other sections. Many papers of a special 
character and containing the results of original investigation were 
presented at these meetings, a detailed account of which will be 
found in the report of their proceedings. 
Two Bulletins, aggregating 130 pages, have been issued dur- 
ing the year. It has been our aim to publish nothing in our peri- 
odical but articles containing a large proportion of new facts or 
based upon original observations and research. 
Naturally our society is expected to be the authority on all 
matters relating to the natural history of its own locality and to 
make it its special object to encourage and to carry on investi- 
gations in that field. 
In this regard the work done has been encouraging and satis- 
factory. In the field of entomology we have published a list of 
the Lepidoptera of MihA^aukee County by Messrs. Rauterberg and 
Dernehl, a list of the Syrphidae by Dr, Graenicher, and studies 
on our solitary wasps by Geo. W. and Eliz. G. Peckham. 
In the field of Botany Dr. S. Graenicher has worked up the 
local methods of fertilization of a great many of our native plants 
and we have published his papers on the fertilization and insect 
