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port was accepted. The thanks of the Academy were returned 
to the Committee for its energetie efforts, and the Committee 
was discharged. 
The following papers were then read: 
1. The poisonous action of dissolved salts and their electro¬ 
lytic dissociation. Louis Kahlenberg and R. H. True. 
2. The scientific importance of more complete vital statistics 
in the state of Wisconsin. U. 0. B. Wingate. 
It was then voted that during the remainder of the session 
no departure from the order of the published program be al¬ 
lowed without unanimous consent of the Academy. 
The following papers were then read: 
3. Some uses of the low potential alternating current in the 
chemical laboratory. Milo S. Walker. 
4. The floral structure of some G-ramineae. Herman F. Lued- 
ers. 
5. Some native hybrid verbenas. H. F. Leuders. 
6. The periodic errors of the right ascensions of the funda¬ 
mental stars. Geo. C. Comstock. 
7. Recent criticism of the Newtonian law of gravitation. Geo. 
C. Comstock. 
The chair announced that in place of Messrs. Birge, Rogers 
and Marsh of the Committee on Membership, who were absent, 
he would appoint Messrs. H. W. Hillyer, H. F. Lueders and G-. 
L. Collie, pro tern. 
The academy then adjourned until evening. 
EVENING SESSION. 
At 8 o’clock Vice-president J. J. Blaisdell delivered an address 
upon “ The methods of science as being in the domain of logic. ” 
No business was transacted. 
