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Bulletin Wisconsin Xatural History Society. [Vol. 6, Xos. 1 — 2. 
Milwaukee, Feb. 13, 1908. 
There was no special section meeting of the Society, as the Natural 
History Society met in conjunction with the Wisconsin Academy of 
Sciences, Arts and Letters, the Wisconsin Archeological Society and 
the W^isconsin narcological Society, in a general meeting at the Public 
Museum, on the evening usually devoted to the section meeting. 
Milwaukee, Feb. 27, 1908. 
Regular monthly meeting of the Society. 
President Teller in the chair and about fiftj' persons present. 
The names of : 
Gustav J. A. Trostel, 555 Terrace Avenue, 
G. Fred Bossert, 719 Franklin Place, 
Dr. A. Ivans Comfort, National Soldiers' Home, 
Geo. A. West, 97 Wisconsin Street, and 
Alfred Cummings Burrill, Public Museum, 
were proposed for membership and subsequently elected by the Board 
of Directors. 
There being no further business. President Teller introduced 
Prof. C. O. WTiitman of the University of Chicago, who spoke on "The 
Problem of Progressive Evolutions as Elucidated in the Color Patterns 
of Pigeons." 
Prof. Whitman dealt principally with the possibilities of applying 
Mendelian principles to the changes in color produced by the hybridi- 
zation of various kinds of pigeons. 
The results obtained by him after very extensive breeding and 
crossing seemed to show that Mendel's law is not applicable to the 
inheritance of color patterns in pigeons. A number of colored figures 
of parent pigeons and their hj'brid offspring were exhibited and the 
differences between the actual and expected Mendelian results pointed 
out. The speaker also exhibited a number of colored dr awnings which 
showed the apparent determinate trend of evolution of color patterns 
in certain pigeons. 
After thanking Prof. Whitman on behalf of the Society, President 
Teller declared the meeting adjourned. 
Milwaukee, March 12, 1908. 
Meeting of the combined Sections. 
President Teller in the chair and fourteen members present. 
The minutes of the last meeting were omitted on account of the 
