Secretary's Report. 
553 . 
TWENTY-SIXTH ANNUAL MEETING. 
Madison, December 26-27, 1895. 
Thursday, December 26th. 
AFTERNOON SESSION. 
The Academy was called to order at 2 :45 o’clock in the rooms 
of the Horticultural Society at the Capitol, by Vice-president 
J. J. Blaisdell. 
The meeting was opened with prayer by Dr. J. D. Butler. 
The minutes of the Third Summer Meeting were read and ap¬ 
proved. 
The report of the Treasurer was read and referred to an Audit¬ 
ing Committee "consisting of Messrs. W. W. Daniells, D. P. 
Blackstone and J. H. Clements. 
The Treasurer tendered his resignation on account of his re¬ 
moval to G-reen Bay. The resignation was reluctantly accepted. 
Mr. L. S. Cheney was elected Treasurer to fill the unexpired 
term. 
The report of the Secretary was presented informally showing 
that since the last annual meeting 39 new members have been 
added to the Academy and Volume X of the Transactions has 
been published. The report was accepted. 
The report of the Librarian was read and accepted. The re¬ 
port included his resignation on account of special and pressing 
duties at the University. The nomination of a Librarian to fill 
the unexpired term was referred to the Committee on Member¬ 
ship. 
The Secretary for the Committee on the Bill for Natural His¬ 
tory Survey, reported the'mode of campaign adopted by the Com¬ 
mittee in presenting this bill to the Legislature and the failure 
to secure a favorable report of the same from the Committee on 
Ways and Means, which killed the bill for the present. The re- 
