130 BULLETIN OF WISCONSIN NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. 
VOL. 2 NO. o. 
due notice of the proposed amendments having been mailed to all 
the members of the society by the recording secretary pursuant to 
the order of the board of directors. 
The amended articles of association were then read and ap- 
proved section by section and then adopted as a whole by the 
unanimous vote of the twenty-two members present and of eighty- 
four proxies held and voted by the following persons : By the 
secretary, 6i ; by Mr. Charles E. Brown, 12; by Dr. Charles D. 
Stanhope, 7 ; by Mr. Lee R. Whitney, 2 ; by Mr. Charles H. Doer- 
flinger, i ; by Mr. Adolph Biersach, i ; making a total of 106 
votes. 
(A copy of the amended articles of association is printed else- 
where in this Bulletin.) 
The resolution ''that the transfer heretofore made to the Pub- 
lic Museum of the City of Milwaukee of the collection of books 
and pamphlets in the possession of the society, as well as of others 
which may hereafter come into its possession, be and is ratified 
and approved by the society," offered by the secretary at the last 
meeting and laid over for one month, then came up for action by 
the society, due notice of the resolution having been mailed to 
every member of the society by the recording secretary pursuant 
to the order of the board of directors. 
The resolution was adopted by the following vote : 
Members present voting for the resolution 20 
Proxies held and voted by the secretary 61 
Proxies held and voted by Mr. Brown 12 
Proxies held and voted by Mr. Whitney 2 
Proxy held and voted by Mr. Doerflinger i 
Proxy held and voted by Mr. Biersach i 
Total 97 
Opposed to the resolution were the following : 
Members present voting against the resolution 2 
Proxies held and voted by Dr. Stanhope 7 
Proxy held and voted by Mr. Denison , i 
Total 10 
The secretary reported that the following persons had been 
elected to membership at a meeting of the board of directors held 
May 8: 
Honorary member, E. H. Stiles, of Richland City. 
Active members : Charles H. Yunker, Dr. F. F. John, Arthur 
Nuesse and Dr. Oscar C. Thienhaus, all of Milwaukee; Emil 
