January, 1900. 
Proceedings. 
7 
Mr. P. Dernehl spoke on bird migration, and also described a 
recent visit to the Field Columbian Museum at Chicago. 
Henry Roemheld signified his intention of resigning as director 
of the Botanical section, and a motion passed to recommend to the 
society the electing of Ernest Bruncken to the vacancy. 
Thursday, October 26, 1899. 
The general meeting for October was held this day in the 
lecture room of the Public Museum. President Peckham occu- 
pied the chair, and eighteen persons were present. 
The report of the committee on publications was read by the 
secretary. 
It was voted that the report be adopted and that the selection 
of the members of the editing committee be left to the president. 
Ernest Bruncken was elected director of the Botanical section 
in place of Henry Roemheld^ resigned. 
Mr. Bruncken then read a paper entitled ''Notes on the Dis- 
tribution of Some Trees and Shrubs in the Vicinity of Milwau- 
kee." The pap'er dealt principally with the present distribution 
of the members of the birch, beech, poplar and willow families in 
Milwaukee county. 
A suggestion of Mr. F. Meinecke that the society give one or 
more popular lectures on natural history during the coming winter, 
was favorably considered by the society, and the president and 
Ernest Bruncken were appointed to make the necessary arrange- 
ments. 
President Peckham described some recent experiments made 
by a gentleman of Chicago, upon passenger pigeons, mud pup- 
pies and other animals, and which tended to prove that 
certain facts were not due to any defect in the vision of these 
creatures, but rather to their inability to recognize familiar objects 
when the latter were placed under unusual conditions. 
Mr. Bruncken described a method of collecting data for a new 
list of plants of Milwaukee county, by the use of blank cards to be 
distributed among the active botanists of the locality, and the ex- 
penditure necessary for the printing of these cards was authorized 
by the society. 
Messrs. Paul Jerome Waterous, A. W. Slocum and David 
Whitaker were elected to membership. 
There being no further business to transact, the meeting was 
adjourned. 
William J. Bennetts, Secretary. 
