January, 1900. Proceedings. 3 
Directors of Sections: 
Zoology — Sub-Section Entomology Chas. E. Brown 
Zoology — Sub-Section Ornithology Geo. Shrosbree 
Botany Henry Roemheld 
Ethnology Chas. H. Doerflinger 
Mineralogy Louis Lotz 
Geology and Palaeontology E. E. Teller 
A motion to elect the nominees mentioned by acclamation was 
carried unanimously. 
Chas. H. Doerflinger then read a paper and made remarks on 
his ''Prehistoric Rambles in France," dwelling principally on the 
researches, discoveries and collections of his friend. Dr. Francois 
Daleau, of Bourg sur Gironde, made in the cave called Pair non 
Pair, and which he considered the most interesting and important 
of recent archeological finds. In it are found remains belonging 
to each of the four principal periods of the paleolithic age in 
France, viz., the Acheuleen, the Mousterien, the Solutreen and the 
Madelainien, which correspond to at least four great glacial periods 
and indicate an age estimated at from 30,000 to 90,000 years. 
Mr. E. E. Teller then read a paper on the "Geology and Paige- 
ontology of the Region Around Milwaukee," a district he had per- 
sonally investigated for many years, and in which he had made 
large and valuable collections. Several of the fossils described in 
the paper were stated to be new to science and hitherto unde- 
scribed. 
Thursday, May 25, 1899. 
This meeting was called to order by President Peckham in the 
lecture room of the Public Museum, eighteen members of the 
society being present. 
The secretary read a report of the first field day of the united 
sections of the society. The excursion was made to the vicinity 
of the cement quarries on the upper Milwaukee river, and the 
report covered the ethnological, ornithological, botanical and en- 
tomological aspects of the trip. 
Mr. E. E Teller then exhibited a number of fossils collected 
that day at the quarries, and explained their significance to the 
meeting. One specimen represented the chamber of habitation of 
an undescribed cephalopod. x\mong the others were scales of 
an undescribed fish, also gonotites, and a tooth of Paleomylus 
Greenei, named in honor of the late Thos. A. Greene, of Milwaukee. 
Dr. Peckham then related some observations made during a 
recent trip to Georgia. He had found plant life there about a 
month ahead of that in Wisconsin, but insect life, on the contrary, 
