692 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters. 
FIFTIETH ANNUAL MEETING, 1920 
Fiftieth Anniversary Meeting 
In accordance with the announcement made at the forty-ninth 
meeting and in fulfilment of plans made earlier, the President 
appointed a General Committee of twenty-five to consider plans 
for the proper celebration of the completion of fifty years of 
service by the Academy. The committee was as follows: 
Rufus iM. Bagg, Appleton 
W. Harley Barber, Ripon 
Samuel A. Barrett, Milwaukee 
Arthur Beatty, Madison, Secretary 
Edward A. Birge, Madison, Chairman 
Melvin H. Brannon, Beloit 
Charles E. Brown, Madison 
Charles N. Brown, Madison 
Alfred C. Clas, Milwaukee 
William C. Daland, Milton 
John J. Davis, Madison 
Lewis R. Jones, Madison 
Edward Kremers, Madison 
Publius V. Lawson, Menasha 
Virgil E. McCaskill, Superior 
William A. P. Morris, Madison 
Samuel Plantz, Appleton 
John M. Olin, Madison 
John B. Sanborn, Madison 
Charles S. Slichter, Madison 
Erastus G. Smith Beloit 
Halsten J. B. Thorkelson, Madison 
Frederick E. Turneaure, Madison 
Charles H. Vilas, Madison 
Henry L. Ward, Milwaukee 
This committee, under the direction of its chairman, President 
E. A. Birge prepared a programme which represented the work 
and relationships of the Academy, so far as they could be pre¬ 
sented in a single day.. The 23rd of April was chosen as the 
day, as April was the month in which the first Bulletin of the 
Academy was issued in 1870, and the 23rd was the date on 
which it was possible to bring those persons together whom the 
committee most desired to have present. 
The following programme was projected and carried out. 
