558 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences , Arts, and Letters. 
The following deaths have occurred since the last Annual 
meeting: 
Professor James J. Blaisdell, Beloit College, October 10, 1896. 
Professor Newton S. Fuller, Ripon College, May 8, 1895. 
The report of the Treasurer was read and referred to the Au¬ 
diting Committee, consisting of Messrs. A. S. Mitchell, C. S. 
Slichter, J. S. Roeseler. 
The President appointed the following members as a commit¬ 
tee on nomination of officers: Messrs. C. R. Barnes, Chas. H. 
Chandler, G. W. Peckham. 
A communication was read from the President of the Gelogi- 
cal Society of America, regarding the Pasteur Monument Fund, 
requesting the co-operation of the Academy in this movement. 
The Treasurer was appointed to receive and transmit in the 
name of the Academy any subscriptions which might be made. 
A communication was read from F. A. Bather, Secretary of 
the British Association Committee on Zoological Bibliography 
and Publication, regarding various desiderata of publication. 
The Secretary was directed to reply that the Academy already 
complied with the recommendations of the Committee, except 
that author’s separates are distributed in advance of general 
publication; and that the Academy deems it necessary to con¬ 
tinue the practice inasmuch as a volume of the Transactions can 
be published only once in two years. The Secretary was further 
directed to add to the date of publication already printed on 
the separates the words, “In advance of general publication." 
The following papers of the program were then read: 
1. Aluminium alcoholates. Orin E. Grooker. Discussed by 
A. S. Mitchell. 
Papers 2-5 were postponed owing to the absence of the au¬ 
thors. 
6. Some distillations from spirits of pine tar. W. S. Leaven¬ 
worth. Read by title only. 
7. The Berlin and Utley quartz porphories and Waushara 
granite. Samuel Weidman. Discussed by E. R. Buckley and 
C. R. Van Hise. 
8. The pre-Cambrian volcanic rocks of the Fox river valley. 
