BULLETIN 
OF THE 
WISCONSIN NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY 
Vol. 11 SEPTEMBER, 1913. No. 3 
PROCEEDINGS 
Milwaukee, Wis., February 13, 1913. 
Meeting of the combined sections. 
President Barth in the chair. Nineteen persons present. Minutes of 
last regular meeting read and approved. 
Mr. Allen reported on the progress of the committee that was appointed 
at the last meeting. 
Messrs. Allen, Mann and Russel remarked on the amount of damage 
done to growing crops in the northern part of Wisconsin, by the deer which 
are under state protection. 
The assigned topic for the evening was: “ Variation as Exhibited by 
Plants and Animals,” Dr. Brinckley opened the discussion by classifying 
the kinds of variation, and by showing slides illustrating principally the 
field of vertebrate morphology. Messrs. Mann, Peaslee and Ward gave 
further illustrations from other fields. 
Mr. Ward introduced the subject of the regulation of seal killing. After 
a general discussion, the motion was passed, favoring the repeal of the 
present federal law that forbids all seal hunting for the period of five years. 
The officers of the Society were directed to correspond with the Wisconsin 
congressmen in regard to this matter. 
The meeting then adjourned. 
Milwaukee, Wis., February 27, 1913. 
Regular meeting of the society. . 
President Barth in the chair. Seventy persons present. Minutes of 
last meeting read and approved. 
Prof. George C. Comstock, Director of the Washburn Observatory and 
Professor of Astronomy in the University of Wisconsin, gave a very instruc- 
tive illustrated lecture on the subject “Glimpses of the Sky.” 
Professor Comstock spoke in particular of the Milky Way, the nebulae, 
and the components of the solar system. 
The Milky Way has a rather complex structure. Supposed to be .made 
up of single stars, and to be of thin depth. It has been suggested that it 
is made up of clouds with dark rifts or holes. May not these rifts be due 
to dark, non-luminous bodies lying between the earth and the Milky Way? 
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