IV 
Proceedings. 
Professor Barnes stated that the American Association for the 
Advancement of Science was looking towards Madison as a 
place in which to hold its annual meeting of 1893. He moved 
that the council be authorized to extend a most cordial invitation 
to the Association to meet in Madison. Carried.* 
A vote of thanks was then given to Professors Marsh and 
Tolman, the committee on arrangements for the meeting, for the 
trouble they had taken to make the meeting a success. 
The weather continuing to be unpromising, the trip planned 
for Saturday was abandoned, and the meeting adjourned sine die . 
Wm, H. Hobbs, 
Secrerary. 
MINUTES OF THE TWENTY-THIRD ANNUAL MEETING, 
Held at Madison , December 29th and 30th , 1892. 
SESSIONS OF THURSDAY, DECEMBER 29. 
The meeting was called to order in the rooms of the Academy 
at the Capitol by the president, Professor George W. Peckham r 
of Milwaukee. The president introduced President Charles 
Kendall Adams, of the University of Wisconsin, who delivered 
a short address of welcome. This was followed by the reading- 
of the minutes of the Ripon meeting. The secretary then an¬ 
nounced that;the Academy had lost by death during the year 
just ended, the following members of the Academy: 
Dr. A. L. Chapin, ex-president of Beloit College. A life- 
member and past president of the Academy. 
Dr. P. R. Hoy, of Racine. An active member and past 
president of the Academy. 
Dr. J. S. Newberry, Columbia College, New York. A cor¬ 
responding member of the Academy. 
Hon. Edward D. Holton, of Milwaukee. An active member. 
Remarks were then made by Dr. J. D. Butler, eulogizing Dr. 
Hoy. Remarks of a like nature having reference to Dr. Chapin. 
* This invitation was extended to the association at the Rochester 
meeting in 1892.— Sec. 
