146 BULLETIN OF WISCONSIN NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. VOL. 3, NO. 4. 
Applications for membership were received from the following: 
Howland Russell, Dr. John Madden, Win. Segall, Dr. Carl Bruck, James 
K. Mazak, Chas. Quarles, J. W. S. Tomkiewicz and Fremont Utter. 
The President referred to the unfortunate omission of the name 
of one of the oldest and most esteemed members of the archaeological 
section from the published list of members. 
Mr. Louis Lotz then read an interesting and extended account of 
a trip undertaken by him in August and September of the present year 
to the Mesa Verde in southwestern Colorado and of his investiga- 
tions and explorations among the famous canyons and ancient cliff 
dwellings of that region. 
At the conclusion of his address a vote of thanks was given unan- 
imously to the speaker upon the motion of Mr. H. A. Crosby. 
Mr. Charles H. Doerflinger presented some important and inter- 
esting notes of recent archaeological discoveries in southern France. 
He mentioned the discovery in the caves and grottos of this region of 
sculptures and engravings in ivory, horn and bone, representing both 
animals and human beings; and particularly the quite recent dis- 
covery upon the walls of the grottos themselves of both incised and 
painted representations of animals, including the bison, reindeer and 
horse, believed to have been contemporaneous in execution with the 
sculptures and engravings upon bone and ivory. The age of all is 
placed at from 10,000 to 12,000 j^ears before the Christian era. The 
speaker, also called attention to the fortunate joining of forces in 
France by archaeologists and geologists and to the desirability of such 
harmony of action in other countries and in Wisconsin. 
December 18, 1902. 
President Teller in the Chair. 
Mr. Adolph Biersach presented a report of the biological section 
meeting held Dec. 11. At this meeting Mr. Wm. Yogel exhibited cases 
of butterflies from India; Dr. S. Graenieher, fresh water shells from 
Douglas County; and Mr. Wm. H. Elkey gave an account of the method 
of collecting shells from the Mississippi river for the manufacture of 
buttons. 
By request., the University of Rennes, France, was placed on the 
exchange list of the society. 
Dr. Ernst Hautke and Dr. J. F. Snyder were proposed for active 
membership and Dr. Francois Daleau of Bourg sur Gironde, France, 
was proposed as an honorar\ r member. 
Miss Harriet B. Merrill then favored the meeting with an enter- 
taining account of a trip taken by her the preceding summer and fall, 
in the course of which she visited the cities of Pernambuco, Bahia, Rio 
de Janeiro, sao Paulo and Santos in Brazil, Buenos Aires in Argentina 
and Ascension in Paraguay, including a brief account of each of these 
places and of a steamboat trip up the Para and Paraguay rivers. 
January 29, 1903. 
President Teller in the Chair. Eighty persons present. 
Mr. Adolph Biersach reported an informal meeting of the general 
sections held on Dec. 8th. 
Mr. C. E. Brown presented a report of two meetings of the 
archa'ological section, held on Dec. 29, and Jan. 16, at each of which 
a number of papers were presented on subjects of interest. 
