560 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters. 
20. Forces determining the vertical distribution of the lim¬ 
netic Crustacea. Edward A. Birge. 
The Academy adjourned at 5:40 o’clock. 
EVENING SESSION. 
President C. R. Van Hise called the Academy to order at 
7:30 o’clock and introduced the subject of the advisability of 
again presenting before the State Legislature the bill for a geo¬ 
logical and natural history survey of the state. 
The discussion which followed was participated in by Messrs. 
C. S. Slichter, J. G-. Gregory. Chas. H. Chandler, C. Dwight 
Marsh, G. L. Collie, and C. R. Barnes. All of the speakers 
agreed in the desirability of presenting the bill again to the leg¬ 
islature. 
It was voted that the Council be directed to appoint a com¬ 
mittee to present and push the bill which was drafted last year, 
the committee to have power to modify the bill as seems neces¬ 
sary. 
President Edward D. Eaton of Beloit College then read a 
memorial address on the late Professor James J. Blaisdell, a 
Vice-president of the Academy. 
The Secretary read memorial notices of the late General Geo. 
P. Delaplaine and Mr. Simeon Mills, who were members of the 
Academy. 
These memorials were prepared by Dr. James D. Butler. 
The Academy then adjourned. 
Wednesday, December 30th, 1896. 
MORNING SESSION. 
The Academy was called to order at 9:10 o’clock by the Pres¬ 
ident, C. R. Van Hise. 
The regular program of the meeting was resumed and the 
following papers were read: 
23. Codfish: its place in American history. James D. Butler. 
