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the work of cleaning and mounting the parts after their arrival 
at the museum. The latter part of the lecture was devoted to the 
work that has been done in restoring and picturing these extinct 
animals as they appeared while living on this continent, many 
thousands of years ago. ^ 
Thursday, Feb. 27, 1902. 
At this meeting C. E. Brown reported on 2 section meetings 
held respectively on the 13th and 20th of the month, and gave 
notice that there would be a meeting of the numismatic section on 
the evening of March 6. 
Dr. G. W. Peckham, chairman of the library committee, then 
read the following proposition which the committee had laid be- 
fore the executive board of the Public Museum : 
Dec. 12, 1901. 
To the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees of the Pub- 
lic Museum: 
Gentlemen — At a meeting of the Wisconsin Natural History 
Society held last month the society authorized the special com- 
mittee to suggest the following terms upon which they would be 
willing to transfer to the Public Museum the collection of books 
and pamphlets now in the possession of the society as well as 
others that might come into its possession in the future. 
1st. That the Museum utilize the publications of the society 
as a means for maintaining as far as practicable unbroken sets of 
the publications of the various scientific societies. 
2d. That as far as possible, the gaps in the present sets be 
filled in. 
3d. That they provide for the suitable cataloguing of the 
present collection and future additions to the same. 
4th. That they make the library accessible to the members of 
the Natural History Society at such hours as the Museum may be 
open. 
5th. That upon the order of the President or the Secretary 
of the Natural History Society the Museum loan to the members 
of the society papers or books belonging to the sets provided for 
in the above recommendations. 
Very truly, 
Geo. W. Peckham, 
Chairman. 
To this he stated the following answer had been received : 
