134 BULLETIN OF WISCONSIN NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. 
VOL. 2 NO. "J. 
2. A meeting of the archeological section, held June 19. At 
this meeting the secretary presented his annual report. Plans 
were discussed for the work of the coming season. Mr. Henry 
A. Crosby was elected director. Messrs. W. H. Elkey of Milwau- 
kee and P. O. Griste of East Troy, presented some notable ex- 
hibits. 
The general secretary reported that Rev. E. C. Mitchell, of 
St. Paul, Minn., had been duly elected a member of the society 
by the board of directors at a meeting held May 29, 1902. 
Dr. George P. Barth then exhibited and described the advan- 
tages of a new type of artificial ants' nest. This consists of two 
glass jars or bottles, one within the other, the space between the 
two being filled with sand. This contrivance permits the ants 
to excavate both vertical and horizontal burrows, capable of easy 
examination and easy to handle, and seemed to the speaker to 
possess advantages over the flat nests. 
Hon. Publius V. Lawson, of Menasha, read a paper on ''The 
Buried Forests of the Fox River Valley." (A summary of this 
paper is printed elsewhere in this Bulletin.) 
Applications for membership were received from Miss Olive 
C. Wheeler and Pierson L. Halsey, of Milwaukee ; and from 
Bernhard Gerhard, of St. Louis, and P. H. Hamilton, of Two 
Rivers. 
The meeting then adjourned. 
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